December 2009
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Seth Miller Testifies Before the City Council
On December 16, 2009 Seth Miller testified on behalf of the Mitchell Lama Residents Coalition, before the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings. The Committee was holding an oversight hearing on HPD’s supervision of Mitchell Lama housing.
After laying out HPD’s long history of cutting private deals with landlords instead of enforcing the requirement that prevents J-51...
The Nine Lives of Daniel Peckham
Chelsea Partners v. Peckham goes back to DHCR
On December 10, 2009 Tim Collins won an order stopping the eviction of Daniel Peckham, who hired Collins, Dobkin & Miller, LLP after he lost his demolition case in the Court of Appeals.
In May of 2004 Chelsea Partners sought permission from the DHCR to terminate Daniel Peckham’s tenancy and demolish 244 West 21st Street. The application...