Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Wins Legal Battle for a Holocaust Survivor, Finding Him a New Home
Chaim Indig, an 83-year-old Auschwitz survivor from Boro Park, is now able to live out of his days peacefully and comfortably in a handicapped-accessible luxury apartment in Midwood, known as the Premier House thanks to Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.
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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails on Appeal in Favor of Holocaust Survivor Rejected From Cooperative Board
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails on Appeal in Favor of Holocaust Survivor Rejected From Cooperative Board
Sinensky vs. Rokowsky Supreme Court, Appellate Division: First Department Holocaust Survivor Wins Legal Battle, New Home THERE’S A HAPPY ENDING in sight for a disabled Holocaust survivor who has been living as a virtual prisoner in his Brooklyn home. After two years of legal wrangling, tomorrow Chaim Indig, who uses a wheelchair, is set to move into a handicapped-accessible co-op in Premier House – a luxury Midwood building whose board initially had turned him away. “He indicated he’s excited about...
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Slam Door on Hope
Slam Door on Hope
New York Daily NewsBy: Lore Croghan April 28th, 2004 Holocaust Survivor Fights Coop Board Door Slammed On Hope for A Better Life He survived the Holocaust and a crippling bout with Parkinson’s disease. Now an 81-year-old Brooklyn man is being forced to do battle with a snobby co-op board that won’t let him live out his last days in a little luxury. Chaim Indig – who can’t speak and must use a wheelchair – has filed suit against Premier House in Midwood, charging...
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New Home Sweet Home for Disabled Man
New Home Sweet Home for Disabled Man
New York Daily NewsBy: Lore Croghan April 23rd, 2006 THERE’S A HAPPY ENDING in sight for a disabled Holocaust survivor who has been living as a virtual prisoner in his Brooklyn home. After two years of legal wrangling, tomorrow Chaim Indig, who uses a wheelchair, is set to move into a handicapped-accessible co-op in Premier House – a luxury Midwood building whose board initially had turned him away. “He indicated he’s excited about the move,” said his daughter, Shevie Sinensky, who must speak for...
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Holocaust Survivor Wins Legal Battle, New Home
Holocaust Survivor Wins Legal Battle, New Home
Daily HamodiaBy Reuven Fenton April 25, 2006 Chaim Indig, an 83-year-old Auschwitz survivor from Boro Park, will now be able to live out of his days peacefully and comfortably in a handicapped-accessible luxury apartment in Midwood, known as the Premier House. But purchasing the apartment was no easy task for Indig, who uses a wheelchair and suffers from Parkinson’s disease. For two years, the apartment was the subject of a legal battle and therefore off-limits to Indig, who, in the meantime,...
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Running the Gauntlet
Running the Gauntlet
By: Elizabeth Lent October 1st, 2006 Talk about tense situations. There‟s the sweaty-palm inducing job interview or the anxiety-riddled prospect of getting down on one knee to propose. And who can forget those tense moments scratching out an answer on the SAT test, knowing your future hangs on the difference between answer A and B. Those moments, however, are all child‟s play when it comes to the pinnacle of the high-pressure situation: applying to live in a New York City...
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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Victorious: Efforts to Block Free Exercise of Religion Thwarted
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Victorious: Efforts to Block Free Exercise of Religion Thwarted
On September 9, 2010, plaintiff Forras, a former firefighter, brought a class action lawsuit for damages, in the amount of $350,000,000, allegedly sustained by him and others as a result of the proposed development of a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero. The complaint named the developers of a mosque and Islamic cultural center as defendants. Based on the need to defend against religious and ethnic prejudice, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. took on the case pro bono, that...
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Sinensky v. Rokowsky
Sinensky v. Rokowsky
Sinensky v Rokowsky 2005 NY Slip Op 07518 Decided on October 11, 2005 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports. Decided on October 11, 2005 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P. DANIEL F. LUCIANO PETER B. SKELOS ROBERT A. LIFSON, JJ. DECISION & ORDER...
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Building Management Turned off Utilities, Damaged Walls
Building Management Turned off Utilities, Damaged Walls
The Real DealBy: Hiten Samtani August 6th, 2013 [A NYC landlord] has been ordered by a judge to restore essential services… for a Holocaust survivor who is a longtime resident of [a] controversial building, the New York Post reported. [The resident] who has lived in the building at East 71st Street since 1980, claimed in a lawsuit in Housing Court that he had been without gas since January, according to the Post. The management of the building had also subjected him to...
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The Condo Conversion Crunch
The Condo Conversion Crunch
The New York TimesBy: Julie Satow September 5th, 2013 On first blush, it looks like Carol Cohen, a top residential broker in Manhattan who has counted the fashion designer Vera Wang and the publishing scion Lachlan Murdoch as clients, has a great setup. She lives with her husband in a sprawling two-bedroom apartment on a prime block on Park Avenue, for which she pays about $3,000 a month in rent, far less than the $9,500 a month a nearby two-bedroom on Park Avenue...
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