Practice Areas - Municipal Law
- Zoning, Planning and Land Use
- Real Estate
- Environmental Law
| - Commercial Law
- Appellate Practice
- Litigation
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 914-682-0707
Fax: 914-682-0708
http://www.szlawfirm.net
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| University | Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A., Political Science, 1969 |
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| Law School | New York University, J.D., 1972 |
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| Admitted | 1973, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit |
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| Memberships | Westchester County, New York State and American Bar Associations. |
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| Born | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Biography | Steven Silverberg provides services to businesses, municipalities and individuals. In addition to the approval process for residential and commercial development, he has negotiated complex development agreements and counseled clients in the financing of commercial projects. Currently Steve serves as counsel to several corporations providing services ranging from corporate organization and shareholders agreements to employment litigation. He has also counseled clients through all stages of construction projects including drafting of construction contracts, as well as litigation and arbitration of construction claims. He has served as special counsel for the Villages of Mamaroneck, Pelham Manor, Tarrytown, Wesley Hills, the Town of Eastchester, the Larchmont Public Library and the White Plains Housing Authority. Steve is Planning and Zoning attorney for the Town of Haverstraw and Zoning attorney for the Village of Mamaroneck. Previously, as attorney to the Town of Mamaroneck and Mamaroneck Village Attorney, he counseled all Town and Village boards and commissions. Steve has also served as counsel to the Town of Greenburgh Zoning Board of Appeals and the Greenburgh Housing Authority, and was a Deputy Town Attorney in the Town of Greenburgh. In addition he is the author, having written a Chapter on Subdivision and Site Plan Approval, "Warren's Weed New York Real Property Law" (Matthew Bender, 1990). Co-Author, "Wetlands and Coastal Zone Regulation and Compliance" (John Wiley & Sons, 1993); Chapter on American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts 3d, Vol. 31, "Zoning Proof of Inverse Condemnation From Excessive Land Use Regulation" (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1995). A former Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School and Board Member of the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation. Currently he is a member of the governing council and is past chair of the Education Board of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and a member of the Village Board of the Village of Piermont. He has been listed in the 2010 Metro New York editions of Super Lawyers®. Fellow: American Bar Foundation. |
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| Reported Cases | Vinrus Corp. v. Village of Pelham Manor Building Inspector, 66 A.D.3d 690, 885 N.Y.S.2d 644 (2d Dep't. 2009); Xavier Contracting LLC v. City of Rye, 29 A.D.3d 687, 815 N.Y.S.2d 638 (2d Dep't. 2006); Chambers v. Old Stone Hill, 1 N.Y.3d 424, 774 N.Y.S.2d 866 (2004); Bronxville Field Club v. Irwin Davison, 305 A.D.2d 591, 759 N.Y.S.2d 382 (2d Dep't. 2003); Wickes v. Kaplan, 304 A.D.2d 769, 758 N.Y.S.2d 383 (2nd Dep't. 2003). |
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| ISLN | 903716138 |
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