Our condemnation team helps property owners maximize awards in condemnation proceedings, assists developers when condemnation is a part of their project’s development process, advises lessees on their rights and handles property sales to the government in lieu of condemnation.
The team comprises real estate, land use, environmental and tax lawyers, as well as transactional lawyers and litigators, to ensure the ready knowledge and necessary experience to achieve the best outcome for our clients, quickly and cost-effectively.
We have represented a broad range of clients, both public agencies and more recently private property owners in New York metropolitan area and beyond, in connection with projects including Brooklyn’s MetroTech site, the MTA’s construction of the Fulton Street Transit Center next to Ground Zero, the MTA’s Second Avenue Subway, the East Side Access Project in Long Island City and Manhattan, the development of the Williamsburg waterfront, the MTA’s improvement of the LIRR Station in Flushing, Queens, development by the City of New York of property adjacent to the boardwalk in Coney Island, improvements to Washington’s Union Station by Amtrak, and the development and enlargement of a park involving a 30-acre site in Nassau County.
