Practice Areas
- Landlord and Tenant
I&H does not have a volume landlord and tenant practice. In other words, we do not have hundreds of cases going at once; we do not spend all day running around landlord and tenant court writing carbon paper stipulations. We are the place people come when they have a serious landlord and tenant problem and need results.
We represent landlords and tenants in both commercial and residential contexts.
The majority of our landlord and tenant practice is commercial, involving high rents and high stakes. A consistent portion of our practice involves residential landlord and tenant matters, including rent control and rent stabilization cases, high rent residential cases, the full range of Division of Housing and Community Renewal matters, and Loft Law matters. In addition, there is a Bankruptcy Court aspect to our landlord and tenant practice, inasmuch as we routinely apply to lift automatic stays commercial tenants obtain.
I&H approaches landlord and tenant cases as hard-core litigation, from inception through trial. We also do many landlord and tenant appeals. See our Accomplishments of Interest Section on Landlord and Tenant Litigation.
Furthermore, I&H has a specialty in clearing buildings for major capital projects. For example, Itkowitz & Harwood was lead counsel for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in evicting tenants from Grand Central Station in the mid-1990s so that its historic renovation could begin. Other "de-leasing" projects include clearing buildings at 750 Lexington Avenue for Cohen Bros. Real Estate Corp., at the New York City headquarters of the Directors Guild of America, Inc., at the New York Coliseum for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, and at a building on 11th Avenue in Manhattan containing approximately 150 sub-tenants for Charles Benenson & Preston R. Tisch. See our Accomplishments of Interest Section on Major Capital Projects.
Moreover, I&H has done a great deal of writing and teaching in the landlord and tenant area. See our Teaching and Publishing Section.