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
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
If you haven’t written one, the state has done it for youTalking to lawyers about wills, you learn three things: 1. You don’t know much about wills 2. What you don’t know can’t hurt you after you die—but it can certainly hurt your loved ones 3. So make a will—now “Do it,” urges Anita Rosenbloom of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. “We’re all mortal, including young people.” She tells of a man with no history of heart disease who died of a heart attack, leaving a 6-year-old son and a widow who was not a U.S. citizen. …
New York Dog Bite Injury: Laws To Know
When personal injury attorney Pat James Crispi at Keogh Crispi was kindergarten age, he was attacked by a dog. The attack resulted in “a lot of initial bleeding but no emergency room treatment required,” and left him with strong opinions about dogs. “When an owner has a dog and it charges at me, they say, ‘Oh, he’s just being friendly’ — since when could you read a dog’s mind?” Crispi says. Fortunately, he adds, dog bite cases in New York City are uncommon. That could …
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 My State
Construction projects can cause noise, leave debris, and even damage your property. Neighbors should let you know about any construction projects and stay on top of their contractor to make sure the work does not cause unnecessary damage. Unfortunately, it's usually up to you to take care of problems on your property caused by a neighbor's construction project. You can contact the city or local government for building, zoning, or code violations. And for any damage to your property, you may …
Accidents Will Happen
What to do, just in caseIf you’re involved in a car accident, mistakes can cost you money. The following helpful information from personal injury attorneys applies whether you’re a driver, passenger, pedestrian or cyclist. If anyone is injured, call 911. Even if no one's hurt, says Carol L. Schlitt of The Schlitt Law Firm in Huntington, “You should always call police.” Make sure everyone is safe and turn on hazard lights. “You don’t want to create an enormous traffic pileup,” says Schlitt. “If …
It’s Complicated
Untangling New York’s super-confusing rent regulation lawsIf you’re confused by rent regulation laws, you’re in good company. “Not for the novice or faint of heart,” says real estate attorney Lucas Ferrara of Newman Ferrara, and the author of a 2,000-page book on landlord-tenant law. “New York’s rent regulation laws have been called ‘an impenetrable thicket, confusing not only to laymen but to lawyers’ by no less an authority than New York’s highest court,” says litigation partner Dani Schwartz of real estate law firm …
Development’s Back, Baby!
But do neighborhood rights extend beyond “the right to complain”?“It’s as busy as it was in 2007,” says Ray Mellon, a construction litigator at Zetlin & De Chiara, regarding real estate development in the city. But as 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.” It’s the responsibility of 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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