An office manager at Heritage Hills condominium community in Somers claims she was demoted to part-time status and stripped of health insurance because she was diagnosed with cancer.   Read the article…………………………………..

Q. A homeowner in a condo asks the board to allow the alteration of the balcony enclosure to a taller height. The board and management company agree and the alteration takes place. Twenty-five years later, a new manager says that was improper and the balcony must go back to original standards. Is there a statute […]

THE nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York’s luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fuelled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns.   Read the article………………………………………….

Bloom Cambry, a tenant at Leland Garden Condos in Soundview, says she has had to bundle up in her own home for almost a year now.  The city’s Department of Buildings told News 12 the saga began with a gas leak at building on Story Avenue in Feb. 2020.  The complex owners and their licensed […]

Pity the poor wealthy people trying to buy high-end condos in New York City today. The world just keeps piling on.  First came targeted federal moves, beginning in New York and Miami, to prevent all-cash condo buyers from hiding behind the veil of limited liability companies, also known as LLCs or shell companies – an […]

After 10 months of unprecedented upheaval, 2020 is ending on a note of high anxiety for cooperative and condominium boards. Now, a comprehensive new survey, emailed to 3,474 board directors, provides a telling snapshot of our readers’ anxieties and hopes as this unimaginable year draws to a close. Here are some of the major concerns:  […]

With winter descending and the year drawing to a close, it’s the normal time to make resolutions for the New Year. Of course, nothing about this year has been “normal,” but in the spirit of optimism that 2021 will not be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic the way that 2020 has been, I submit a […]

Unit owners are accusing Ben Shaoul’s firm of stiffing them on reserve-fund money for the Tribeca condominium 87 Leonard. But the law might not be on their side.   Read the article…………………………………….

The seesaw battle for access to co-ops’ and condos’ books rages on. In the latest skirmish – a major victory for co-op boards – Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nancy M. Bannon has ruled that a disgruntled shareholder’s request for access to corporate books and records was “overly broad” and was supported “only by speculation” of […]

The boards of three luxury condominium developments along the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, waterfront are suing the city for more than $2 million, claiming Parks Department officials have failed to maintain the publicly managed green spaces and piers fronting their buildings, while also allowing raucous revelers to party late into the night, Brownstoner reports.  Read the article…………………………….

Three Williamsburg condo boards have filed a $2 million lawsuit against the city, alleging it has failed to maintain the waterfront areas that the buildings developed and for which owners continue to pay fees.   Read the article………………………………

An internal dispute over union labor at the Plaza has gone public.  In a lawsuit filed last week, One Central Park South’s residential board, which represents the Plaza condominiums, alleged that the hotel has stalled and obstructed a nonunion contractor from initiating repairs to a 15th-floor balcony.    Read the article……………………………….

It’s been 16 months since a fire destroyed the Mounainview Condominium Complex in Valley Cottage and residents still don’t know when they will be able to return.  The 16 people who were displaced by the fire have had to pay mortgage and maintenance fees even though they are still not living in the building.   Read […]

Three residents from a gated community in southern Brooklyn are taking their homeowners’ association to court to force the release of its financial records — claiming that there are more than $5.1 million in discrepancies between the governing body’s tax returns and financial statements over the course of four years.    Read the article…………………………..

According to a press release from the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, over a dozen residential workers at a luxury condo in Manhattan’s Financial District have gone on strike as of 7a.m. Monday, May 18 to protest what they claim are unfair labor practices at 75 Wall Street.    Read the article………………………..

Migratory birds are flying thousands of miles to the Big Apple — only to smack into a glassy Upper West Side condo and fall dead, according to bird advocates who tallied 28 fatalities in a single day thanks to the Central Park-adjacent building.    Read the article…………………………….

Village of Garden City residents in the Estates Property Owners’ Association section are outraged at the series of massive utility poles installed for PSEG Long Island power transmission along the LIRR Third Track project, which they believe has forever altered their neighborhood and potentially their property values.    Read the article……………………………

In this time of uncertainty, it is difficult for many co-op and condo boards to decide if they should push ahead with construction projects that have been deemed essential under the state’s mandatory pause on nonessential work during the coronavirus shutdown. That same uncertainty is overshadowing many planned capital projects.   Read the article…………………………..