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Mark A. Levine: profile

Mark A. Levine specializes in land use, zoning, environmental law, historic preservation and real estate tax law. He heads Herrick's Land Use and Environmental Group, which advises clients in applications before state, city, town and village planning commissions and boards for zoning changes, special permits, environmental, historic and related matters; applications for special permits and variances before zoning appeal boards. Mark represents clients before the New York City Planning Commission, New York City Council, New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, New York City Landmark Preservation Commission, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, New York City Department of Finance, New York City Department of Environmental Protection Agency, New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as well as other historic preservation agencies.

As an experienced zoning and land use attorney, Mark has been involved in many large and complex transactions including land use and environmental approvals for the 900-unit Oceana residential development project in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn; the proposed 515-unit senior living project at the Seaview Hospital in Staten Island, NY; the rezoning of Greenpoint - Williamsburg, Brooklyn; a Variance for the Lenox, the first market-rate residential building to be built in Central Harlem in 60 years; the National Tennis Center, Flushing, New York; the million square foot office building and Brooklyn Marriott Hotel; Yale University with respect to the Divinity School and 85 Trumbull Street litigation; Brown University with respect to historic preservation issues; rezoning of Flushing, Queens, NY, the Regional U.S. Food and Drug Administration regional headquarters in Queens; the Harlem River Yard Transportation and Industrial Development Project; the Metrotech Project in Brooklyn and the New York State Psychiatric Building in Washington Heights.

Mark is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Zoning and Land Use.  He previously served as Chairman of the Association's Committee on Housing and Urban Development.  Mark has also acted as Chairman of the not-for-profit Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn for the past five years. 

Mark is an adjunct professor of planning law at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.  Prior to that, he was an adjunct professor at City University Graduate Center School of Urban Design and Architecture and Baruch College's Real Estate Program where he taught Real Estate and Planning Law.   In addition, he has lectured at the Practicing Law Institute and numerous environmental and planning seminars.

Mark is co-author of Herrick's land use and environmental blog, ZONE, which keeps readers up-to-date on the latest issues in land use and environmental law.

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