New York State Unified Court System

On Tuesday afternoon, The Real Estate got a strange email from Westchester-based PR man Rich Roher.

Today's decision by the NYS Appeals Court, reversing a June 2005 NYS Supreme Court decision, effectively says that a landlord cannot compel a leasee to acquire terrorism insurance if terrorism is not specifically included in the lease's named perils policy. In other word's [sic], landlords must specifically state in a lease if they will require leasees (or their assigns) to have terrorism insurance.

Frankly, we didn't know landlords ever had the chance to force terrorism insurance upon anyone. But, apparently, they can't anymore.

More to come from Warren Estis of Rosenberg & Estis, the lawyer who represented the Appellant from 9 West 57th...

- Max Abelson

Ken Diamondstone was reinstated to the ballot today in the race for Brooklyn's 25th senate district after a week's worth of court appearances. He will face Marty Connor in the primary September 12.

Stay tuned for more as we hear back from both candidates.

—Nicole Brydson

UPDATE: Diamondstone press release after the jump.  read more »