Real estate development in New York City presents many challenges, including coordinating construction with neighboring property owners and protecting adjacent properties. Our team has carved out a niche role in this space, deftly navigating our clients through neighboring construction and adjacent access matters.
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Adjacent Access Group, part of the Firm’s Construction Practice, negotiates access license agreements for our development clients and impacted neighboring property owners. Through a strategic approach, our team handles the critical and time-sensitive requirements needed in accessing adjoining property for completing our clients’ projects or protecting their properties from neighboring construction.
On behalf of clients, we handle any access request including underpinning, structural reinforcements, chimney extensions, coordination of concurrent construction projects, lot line window protection and closures, monitoring, and overhead and rooftop protections.
We’re adept at prosecuting and opposing special proceedings pursuant to RPAPL 881 to compel access where agreements cannot be reached. These efforts have cemented our position in this niche space, as our team has helped shape the current case law governing access to adjacent properties and compensation.
Our experience includes:
- Drafting and negotiating access agreements
- Litigating special proceedings for disputes related to access terms for neighboring properties
- Obtaining code-required protections and NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) permit applications
Our Construction team is comprised of litigators skilled at resolving disputes that arise with construction projects involving neighboring property owners and we have broad experience navigating the negotiations and litigation in adjoining property owner disputes.
