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Editor: David Reiss
Brooklyn Law School

October 2, 2023

How to Fake-Own the New Yorker Hotel

By David Reiss

New York magazine’s Curbed interviewed me for their explainer, How to Fake-Own the New Yorker Hotel. It reads: The story of how a guy named Mickey Barreto came to own, at least on paper, the New Yorker hotel is a … Continue reading

July 14, 2023

Housing Supply and The Housing Crisis

By David Reiss

Opportunity Now interviewed me about how limited housing construction impacts the housing crisis: Dynamic metropolitan areas like the Bay Area, LA, and New York City suffer from longstanding mismatches between the supply of housing and demand for it. Local communities … Continue reading

April 5, 2021

Rent Regulation from NY to NZ

By David Reiss

I was interviewed by Indira Stewart on the TVNZ Breakfast show, the biggest morning news show in New Zealand, about New York City’s system of rent regulation (I serve as the Chair of the NYC Rent Guidelines Board).  You can … Continue reading

July 10, 2019

Does Historic Preservation Limit Affordable Housing?

By David Reiss

I answer that it can in CQ Researcher’s Historic Preservation:  Can The Past Escape The Wrecking Ball? Many people fail to realize that land use policies like historic preservation involve big trade-offs. The most important one is that if you want … Continue reading

March 18, 2019

Skyscraper’s Future up in The Air

By David Reiss

The New York Law Journal quoted me in Upper West Side Skyscraper’s Future Uncertain After NY State Court Ruling. The story opens, The development at 200 Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan is slated to be the tallest building on the Upper … Continue reading

January 25, 2019

Protecting Small Businesses

By David Reiss

Students in my Community Development Clinic and I have a column in the New York Law Journal, Small Business Jobs Survival Act May Have Opposite Effect. It reads, The New York City Council is considering a bill, the Small Business Jobs … Continue reading

December 7, 2018

Amazonian Rage in NYC

By David Reiss

Vice quoted me in Amazon Is Bringing in Elite Lobbyists Amid Seething Rage Over HQ2. It opens, Amazon might be too big to tax, but it’s not too big to freak out. As the company tries to erect a massive headquarters in … Continue reading