Unpacking Adverse Possession and Ownership as Crude Legal Functionalisms: Starecheski on the Lower East Side Squatters
By Marc L. Roark+ In 1996, five buildings on 13th Street in the Lower East Side of New York City were transferred to a housing developer to gut, refurbish, and transform into low-income housing. In the years preceding that, squatters and the city engaged in on-again, off-again claims for the space that weaved careful narratives […]
Banning Plastic Bags Under the New York “Home Rule”
By Kelly O’Connor New York City residents use an estimated ten billion plastic shopping bags annually, resulting in 1,700 tons of residential garbage per week.[i] Despite the fact that city government has long recognized the great environmental and financial costs of single-use plastic bags, local proposals to reduce the number of carryout bags in the […]