• Adam B. Taubman represents private developers, banks, and not-for-profit educational, cultural and health care institutions in the planning, development, and financing and acquisition of major properties in New York City. Adam advises clients on the development potential of sites, negotiates complex transactions for the transfer of development rights, conducts land use due diligence for property acquisition and financing, and applies for and obtains discretionary land use approvals, including rezonings, special permits and variances.

    Adam regularly appears on behalf of clients before New York City’s various land use agencies, including the City Planning Commission, the Board of Standards and Appeals, the Department of Buildings, the Department of Transportation, the City Council and local community boards.

    Among his most notable recent work, Adam represented major health care institutions in obtaining zoning variances and related approvals for a new hospital center, a new ambulatory care facility, a new biomedical research building and an expanded emergency department, and a major university in connection with land use approvals for new and converted academic buildings. He obtained City Planning Commission and City Council approvals for the continued operation of Madison Square Garden and significant enhancements to signage, and secured state and city approvals for the enlargement and reconfiguration of the World Financial Center on behalf of a major developer. Adam also assisted Broadway Housing Communities, a nonprofit housing developer, in obtaining a rezoning and other land use approvals for the development of a 13-story mixed-use building containing 124 units of affordable housing and a children’s museum.

    New York Super Lawyers recognized Adam as a Rising Star from 2015 through 2019.

    Experience

    • Represented Trinity Place Holdings Inc. in connection with the development, agency approval and financing of a new mixed-use building containing 90 luxury condominium homes, retail space and a public school at 77 Greenwich Street, Manhattan.

    • Represented major health care institutions in obtaining zoning variances and related approvals for a new hospital center, a new ambulatory care facility, a new biomedical research building and an expanded emergency department.

    • Represented Madison Square Garden in obtaining City Planning Commission and City Council approvals for the continued operation of the arena and significant enhancements to signage.

    • Represented a major developer in securing state and city approvals for the enlargement and reconfiguration of the World Financial Center.

    • Represented a major university in connection with land use approvals for new and converted academic buildings.

    • Represented Broadway Housing Communities, a nonprofit housing developer, in obtaining a rezoning and other land use approvals for the development of a 13-story mixed-use building containing 124 units of affordable housing and a children’s museum.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law, 2008
      • Order of the Coif
      • Robert McKay Scholar
      • Dean's Scholarship Recipient
      • Article Editor, Annual Survey of American Law
      • Executive Board, Real Estate & Urban Policy Forum
    • B.A., Psychology, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 2004

    Bar Admissions

    • New York, 2009
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