Sustainable Westchester is thrilled to announce the opportunity for building owners in Yonkers and Peekskill to participate in the organization’s REACH (Renewable Energy Alternative Heating & Cooling) Offering- a transformative initiative which aims to decarbonize building(s) and assess the feasibility of connection to a municipality-led Thermal Energy Network (TEN). The organization has launched a Request for Information (RFI) for building owners interested in participating in this pioneering project. The program compliments the organization’s current project with the Cities of Peekskill and Yonkers to develop renewable energy infrastructure for heating and cooling. If a building is selected, the team will work […]

A Yankwitt LLP trial team led by Partner Michael Reed scored a defense victory for the Golden Nugget Atlantic City Hotel, Casino & Marina (“GNAC”) in a jury trial in New Jersey state court. The case was filed by a casino patron who alleged injuries arising out of an altercation with GNAC security. The patron asserted a multitude of claims, including negligence, battery, malicious prosecution, and false imprisonment. Yankwitt LLP’s exceptional brief writing, oral argument skills and trial experience carried the day. Following discovery, we successfully moved for partial summary judgment, leading to the dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims of […]

Zeidel & Associates P.C. was retained to represent a client in a retail leasing transaction in an upscale area in midtown Manhattan. The firm has represented the client in multiple leasing transactions throughout the city. Approach As part of our negotiations, we asked the landlord to represent that the leased space, which included portions of the building’s ground floor and basement and a mezzanine floor, had a valid certificate of occupancy (C of O), but the landlord rejected the request. Our research uncovered that the landlord did not have a C of O for the entire leased space: the original […]