About Marisa Bowe
Marisa Bowe is a writer, editor and producer with credits in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, New York Magazine, Slate, and PBS NewsHour, among others. She is co-editor of the oral histories Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, and US: Americans Talk About Love. She graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in modern European history.
Articles written by Marisa Bowe
What You Need to Know About New York Voting Rights
New York civil rights lawyers weigh in on the state’s election lawsSome people were shocked when a voting rights scandal broke out during the New York primary in April 2016. But not Randolph McLaughlin. “Business as usual,” says the co-chair of the civil rights practice group at Newman Ferrara and professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. While attempting to verify their voter registration status before and during election day, more than 125,000 voters—many of them active—discovered that they’d been listed as inactive, …
The Zonin’ Lobels
Richard Lobel follows in the footsteps of his father, Sheldon, who followed in the footsteps of his father-in-lawRoughly a decade ago, Richard Lobel, currently the managing partner at land use and zoning firm Sheldon Lobel, P.C., was looking up some old Board of Standards and Appeals rulings for a case he was working on. “When you look at old BSA resolutions, you don’t just see resolutions relating to your property—there were typically several determinations listed on the same sheet,” he says. “As my eyes scanned the page, I noticed May 7, 1970, and then saw that my grandfather was sitting on …
Neighbor Rights During Construction in New York City
What to know and do if your use of property is interfered with“It’s as busy as it was in 2007,” says Ray Mellon, a construction litigator at Zetlin & De Chiara, about real estate development in New York City. But as construction projects magnify, so do problems. Demand for construction workers may be skyrocketing, but the pool of experienced laborers stays more or less the same. “It dilutes the labor force,” explains Mellon. “You have workers ignorant of building practices and people cutting corners.” Safety, Soundness, Quiet It’s the …
Pirates of the Arabian
Lawrence Rutkowski on negotiating with men holding AK-47s“Up until a few short months ago, my idea of a pirate was Johnny Depp,” says Lawrence Rutkowski, the 56-year-old head of Seward & Kissel’s transportation finance practice. That changed last Thanksgiving evening when Rutkowski received a phone call from James Christodoulou, the CEO of Industrial Shipping Enterprises Corp. (ISEC), for whom Rutkowski acts as general counsel. It seemed an ISEC vessel, the Biscaglia, and its crew of 28, had been hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of …
The Eagle Scout
Bankruptcy lawyer Deryck Palmer is nice 98 percent of the timeIn the early 1980s, Ted Berkowitz and a handful of fellow law firm associates would regularly meet over lunch, or at one of their offices, to talk about bankruptcy issues. Federal bankruptcy law had undergone a comprehensive overhaul in 1978, says Berkowitz, now of Farrell Fritz in Uniondale, "so for us, there was very little learning curve with respect to that law. The cases were only five years old. Every time there was a decision in the Southern District of New York, law was being made." In …
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