Case Updates
KMWB Successfully Defends Tenant’s $4,000,000 Renovations with Injunction and Summary Judgment and Attorneys’ Fees
KMWB represented a commercial tenant who entered into a net lease for a 58,000 square foot vacant warehouse that was a former paper mill factory. Our client executed the Lease when the Building was virtually a shell and set about to undertake a wholesale conversion...
KMWB Proves Department of Buildings Failed to Establish Client’s Liability, Successfully Appeals 4 Violations
Rachel Kramer successfully appealed 4 ECB violations issued by the Department of Buildings, relating to alleged transient use of a client’s property. As a result of an advertisement for a short-term rental placed by the tenant of record, often times referred to as an...
KMWB Saves Client $2 Million & Fashionable Brooklyn Rental Property in Arbitration
Nativ Winiarsky and Abner Zelman recently obtained an award wholly in favor of the client in an AAA arbitration specifically enforcing the performance of an agreement between two members of a limited liability company, the sole asset of which was a valuable rental...
KMWB Successfully Defends Client in Partnership Dispute
Nativ Winiarsky and Abner Zelman recently successfully defended our client in a proceeding brought by the client’s partner to dissolve their two partnerships, which owned two valuable commercial properties in midtown Manhattan. The proceeding, alleging mismanagement...
Kucker Marino Winiarsky & Bittens Represents Brooklyn Landlord in Class-Action Overcharge Claim
Nativ Winiarsky, a partner at Kucker, Marino, Winiarsky, & Bittens, LLP, is set to argue against certification of a class of tenants seeking treble damages for various overcharges claims.
Nativ Winiarsky Secures Favorable Outcome in Major Case for New York City Landlords
KMWB secured a favorable outcome for landlords and property owners in a pivotal case for NYC Landlord Tenant Law. Nativ Winiarsky, a partner at Kucker, Marino, Winiarsky, & Bittens, LLP, represented a landlord who managed several cluster-sites that were housing formerly homeless families for affordable rents.
KMWB Represents Purchaser of Luxury Brooklyn Condominium in Sponsor Building
Robyn Jagroop, an associate at KMWB, represented the purchaser of a sponsor condominium unit in Brooklyn’s historic Clinton Hill neighborhood. The $1.3 million residential unit is located steps from Prospect Park and is on a street featuring a row of Brooklyn’s famous brownstones.
KMWB Receives Favorable Verdict and Saves Landlord Tens of Thousands
Andrew Bittens saved a landlord tens of thousands of dollars by securing a favorable verdict at trial in a commercial non-payment of rent proceeding.
Landlord Awarded Possession of Rent Regulated Apartment
Nikolaos Preponis, Esq. Of Counsel to KMWB, received a favorable decision on appeal in which the Appellate Term, First Department affirmed the lower court’s grant of a motion for summary judgment to the landlord. The case was a non-primary resident proceeding whereby the corporate tenant was claiming it was entitled to a lease renewal.