A tenant occupying an East Village, NYC, apartment, sued the landlord, alleging a substantial rent overcharge. The suit claimed that the landlord fabricated or improperly claimed Individual Apartment Improvements (IAIs) when increasing the tenant’s rent, failed to properly register the apartment, and engaged in a fraudulent scheme to improperly deregulate the apartment building.

The tenant

Rivkin Radler’s expertise was on full display in a series of appellate victories on behalf of a commercial real estate client.

The team of Erez Glambosky, Jeremy Honig and Henry Mascia worked on behalf of a client, a commercial tenant operating a parking garage in Manhattan. The client faced an onslaught of eviction attempts by

In a fiercely contested real estate litigation dispute, Jeremy B. Honig, Erez Glambosky, and Ryan Roberts secured summary judgment for their client, a commercial landlord, for almost $200,000 in unpaid rent. By written decision, dated June 6, 2023, Justice Arlene Bluth granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in the entirety, awarding $192,747.88 in unpaid rent,

Erez Glambosky and Matthew Meisel were successful in obtaining both a substantial judgment and sweeping relief on their motion for summary judgment on behalf of Rivkin Radler’s landlord client.

In the case, CA 522 Fulton LLC v Science Language & Arts, Index No. 652477/2021, the landlord, CA 522 Fulton LLC (“CA 522”), commenced an action

Erez Glambosky, Jeremy Honig, Mark Antar and Matt Meisel won reargument and summary judgment against a guarantor of a commercial lease, successfully persuading the Brooklyn Supreme Court to reverse itself, acknowledge its prior error in interpreting a new COVID-related provision of the NYC Administrative Code, and agree with Rivkin Radler’s interpretation of the law.

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In a hotly contested proceeding in New York County Landlord-Tenant Court, wherein our landlord client was facing potential liability for treble damages and an order directing restoration of possession to the tenant, Erez Glambosky and Matthew Meisel successfully persuaded the Court to dismiss the tenant’s petition, with prejudice, and grant a judgment in favor of

In a highly publicized matter, Jeremy Honig, Erez Glambosky and Cheryl Korman, on behalf of their client, a neighborhood coalition, successfully persuaded the Appellate Division, First Department, to reverse the lower court and order a full hearing on whether a building in midtown Manhattan can be safely opened and operated as a homeless shelter.

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Erez Glambosky was recently interviewed for a webcast concerning the impact of a New York State Court of Appeals rulings.

Earlier this month the New York Court of Appeals ruled in four separate cases that with regard to the retroactive application of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) of 2019, “the overcharge calculation

Bagel Boss of Merrick (“BBM”) retained the Firm to take on its landlord who, along with landlord’s counsel, had designed a plan to deprive BBM of its contractual right to extend the Merrick lease for five years, notwithstanding BBM’s confirmation to the landlord that it was exercising the option to extend.  After meeting with BBM

Erez Glambosky and Jeremy Honig prevailed on behalf of their landlord client. The Court ruled that the tenant cannot reopen an overcharge claim based upon HSTPA Choice of Forum.

Plaintiff-tenant moved to renew/reargue the Court’s order from June 3, 2019, dismissing plaintiff’s overcharge complaint and directing him to file before the New York State Division

Erez Glambosky was quoted in a November 9, 2019, New York Times “Ask Real Estate” piece that explores whether an unruly subtenant may be evicted and by whom.

“It was the shareholder who installed this individual, and the shareholder is responsible,” Erez said. “Ultimately the shareholder is the one who has to take action.”

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Erez Glambosky and Jeremy Honig prevailed in a summary non-primary holdover proceeding on behalf of a landlord after a five-day bench trial in Civil Court, Kings County.

The issue at trial was whether the son of the rent-controlled tenant of an apartment in Brooklyn had established his right to succeed his father’s rent-controlled tenancy. During

John Panagopoulos represented the Purchaser of a commercial condominium located at 112-03 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, NY, for the practice of sports medicine.  The purchase price was $1.18 million and was financed with Citibank N.A. for a loan amount of $940,000.

John Panagopoulos represented the Purchaser, Rhyme Holdings II LLC, in its acquisition of an

Erez Glambosky with be a speaker at a rent regulation roundtable presented by CBRE. The discussion will be held on Tuesday, July 30 from 5-7 pm at 200 Park Ave., New York City.

The program will discuss recently adopted changes to the City’s rent regulation polices and its impact on the residential market.

Cheryl Korman, Jeremy Honig and Erez Glambosky successfully obtained an emergency injunction from the Appellate Division, First Department preventing the opening of a homeless shelter in a dangerously, unsafe building.

Honig was quoted in the New York Post article, “Judge temporarily blocks ‘Billionaire’s Row’ homeless shelter.” The article discusses New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s

On March 26, Jeremy Honig, Erez Glambosky, Stu Gordon and Matt Spero were successful in bringing to a close a long-running, multimillion-dollar litigation involving our client (the Board of Managers of a condominium located in Tribeca), a commercial unit owner at the condominium (the landlord), and a restaurant-bar operating at the commercial unit (the tenant).

Erez Glambosky, Jeremy Honig and Dana Gold obtained summary judgment on behalf of a landlord in a holdover proceeding where market tenants impermissibly held over in their apartment, erroneously claiming the protection of rent stabilization.  The judgment, which resulted in a judgement of possession for the landlord, established important legal precedent that a tenant is

A recent decision serves as a cautionary tale for attorneys. The Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a Supreme Court order dismissing an action to recover damages for unlawful termination on the ground that the same issue had already been decided in a prior action.

In the prior action, the plaintiff’s counsel prepared and signed a

Erez Glambosky and Jeremy Honig scored a significant victory on behalf of developer Naftali Group, by successfully defeating a commercial tenant’s illegal lockout proceeding.

The commercial tenant, a Pilates Studio, alleged that it had not surrendered the premises to the landlord. It never gave the landlord the keys or an affidavit acknowledging the surrender. The

Erez Glambosky, Jeremy Honig and Michelle Bholan successfully defeated a motion by plaintiff, a former employee of our client, seeking to re-argue the court’s dismissal of her complaint in which she alleged that she had been unlawfully terminated.

In denying Plaintiff’s motion, the Court adhered to its prior determination to dismiss the complaint, noting that

Matt Spero, Stu Gordon, and Erez Glambosky represented a landlord in connection with the bankruptcy of the principal of two of the landlord’s tenants.  The principal had previously executed a “good guy guaranty,” and was seeking to object to the landlord’s claim for rent arrears.  We were successful in convincing the Bankruptcy Court to overrule

Yaron Kornblum, a partner in the firm Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use practice group, closed a record breaking sales transaction on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.  The 70 unit, 108,000 square foot apartment building, owned by the Zauderer Family, sold for $67,000,000.  The building, built in 1913, was self-managed by the matriarch of the family for

David M. Grill and Erez Glambosky, partners in the firm’s Litigation and Appeals Group, obtained summary judgment in favor of a New York City commercial restaurant tenant dismissing a Nonpayment Proceeding commenced by the landlord for unpaid rent and water charges.  The Court was not persuaded by any of the landlord’s arguments and derided the