Congressman Dan Goldman spoke at the 199th CityLaw Breakfast on “Democracy on the Brink: Corruption and the Public Trust.” Dean and President of New York Law School Anthony W. Crowell and Ben Max, ...

On June 12, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation and Fire Department began distributing certified fire-safe e-bikes and e-batteries to food delivery workers through the city’s E-Bike ...

Owner required additional permit to complete Plaza Hotel’s conversion plan. When El-Ad Properties bought the Plaza Hotel in October 2004, it proposed to convert the hotel’s 805 rooms into luxury ...

Ross Sandler, Director of the Center for New York City Law. Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations ...

Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents. Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical ...

Image Credit: Darren McGee- Office of Governor Kathy Hochul. By Jeffrey M. Wice and Piper Benedict New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms ...

Credit: CityLaw New York State in 2021 must redraw the State’s senate, assembly and congressional districts. The process will be different from the process used to draw legislative and congressional ...

On February 2, 2022, Mayor Eric Adams announced three new appointments of his administration connected to social services. The three appointments are: Gary Jenkins as Commissioner of the Department of ...

Illustration: Jeff Hopkins. When municipalities are sued in tort, two of the most powerful bars to recovery are the public duty principle and the governmental function immunity defense. When these two ...

Mayor Eric Adams. Image Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Pei Pei Cheng de Castro & Jennifer Hopkins On November 6, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly executed a ...

Image credit: Jeff Hopkins How small is too small when it comes to trip hazards on New York City sidewalks? New York courts, grappling with this issue for over 125 years, have declined to advance a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul, State Operations Director Kathryn Garcia, & then-Counsel to the Governor Liz Fine (photo: Mike Groll/Governor’s Office) By Liz Fine The new year. A time for celebrations, for ...