Real Estate

Construction and Development

Publications

April 10, 2025 – Article Spring 2025: Transferring Development Rights by Zoning Lot Merger Spring 2025 Development Whitepaper from Development Site Advisors Michael M. Smith and Robert Huberman

March 11, 2025 – Article City of Yes for Housing Opportunity: Improving the Ability to Transfer a Landmark’s Development Rights New York Real Estate Journal Michael A. Smith & Robert Huberman

February 20, 2025 – Article Getting To Yes On NYC Housing Development Bisnow

December 5, 2024 – Real Estate Alert Update: “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” Text Amendment is Approved by the City Council Mitchell A. Korbey, Robert Huberman and Vinh Van Vo

November 21, 2024 – Real Estate Alert Update: City of Yes – Zoning for Housing Opportunity Mitchell Korbey and Robert Huberman

September 24, 2024 – Real Estate Alert NYC’s ICAP Tax Abatement Extended Until 2029 Brett J. Gottlieb

February 26, 2024 – Real Estate Alert Dept. of Buildings Adapts Second Set of Regulations for Administration of Local Law 97 Bruce A. Cholst

January 31, 2024 – Article Hochul Tax Break Would Enable More Affordable Housing in NYC Bloomberg Brett J. Gottlieb and Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Jr.

December 21, 2023 – Real Estate Alert Gov. Hochul Signs Bill Amending Retainage Provisions of the “Prompt Payment Act” Brendan Schmitt and Kali Korwnapple

April 6, 2021 – Article New York City Development Tools: Mandatory Inclusionary Housing - Part 4 New York Real Estate Journal Michael A. Smith and Patrick J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

March 3, 2021 – Real Estate Alert Enforcement Season: Façade and Scaffold Safety Blitz begins from the DOB By: Howard L. Zimmerman, HLZAE; Brendan Schmitt, Michael A. Smith and Robert Huberman, Herrick, Feinstein LLP

March 19, 2020 – Real Estate Alert Coronavirus and Considerations for Real Estate Transactions Herrick Real Estate Department

March 19, 2020 – Real Estate Alert Coronavirus and Considerations for Real Estate Transactions: CONSTRUCTION Brendan Schmitt

February 2020 – Real Estate Alert Climate Mobilization Act Update: Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Johnson Announce Appointees to Climate Advisory Board Brendan Schmitt

December 2019 – Real Estate Alert The Climate Mobilization Act: Relief from the Act? What you must do by 2021 Brendan Schmitt with contributions by David Katzenstein

November 2019 – Real Estate Alert It’s Coming: The Climate Mobilization Act - What Building Owners Need to Know Now Brendan Schmitt with contributions by David Katzenstein

Barbaros M. Karaahmet Named by New York Law Journal as Office Managing Partner of the Year Finalist

Chief Operating Partner, Barbaros M. Karaahmet, has been named a finalist by the New York Law Journal in the category of Office Managing Partner of the Year...

New York’s Times: At Herrick Feinstein, the past is present

Belinda Schwartz and Barbaros Karaahmet were featured in the New York Metro Super Lawyers Magazine discussing the firm's collection of historical New York objects.

Herrick Bolsters its Intellectual Property and Technology Practice with the Addition of Milton Springut and Caroline Boehm

Milton Springut, an intellectual property practitioner, has joined the firm as partner from Moses & Singer LLP. His longtime colleague Caroline Boehm also joined Herrick as counsel...

Herrick Lands Leading Commercial Litigator Eliad Shapiro

Eliad S. Shapiro, an accomplished commercial litigator known for his deep experience in real estate, has joined the firm as a partner.

Belinda Schwartz on Why Lawyers May Prefer a Midsize Firm

Schwartz sat down with Above the Law to discuss the immediate benefits associates find at a midsize firm as opposed to a Biglaw firm.

Herrick Announces New Partners for 2025

Herrick is pleased to announce the elevation of Theresa Fortin Balducci, Justin Blass, Robert Huberman and Kamilla B. Rodrigues to partner.

“City of Yes" for Housing Opportunity is Approved

City of Yes creates the most comprehensive zoning changes since the adoption of the Zoning Resolution in 1961. Read a summary.