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Samuel H. Lindenbaum

Counsel

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Phone: 212.715.7840 Fax: 212.715.7850 New York

Mr. Lindenbaum’s practice focuses primarily on zoning and land use matters.

With almost fifty years of experience, Mr. Lindenbaum has handled a wide range of legal matters related to real estate and land use, including special permits, zoning changes, variances, landmark proceedings, air rights transfers, tax abatements and economic development incentives for many of the city’s most prominent commercial and residential developments and for the expansion programs of many of the city’s leading non-profit institutions.

Representative Transactions

  • Carnegie Hall
  • The Whitney Museum
  • Columbia University
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Archdiocese of New York
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Tishman Speyer Properties
  • Vornado Realty Trust
  • Glenwood Management
  • Millennium Partners
  • Resnick Organization
  • Silverstein Organization
  • Solow Organization
  • Macklowe Organization

Current Representative Matters

  • Expansion of the Museum of Modern Art
  • Redevelopment of the Pennsylvania Hotel site on 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue by Vornado
  • Sheldon Solow’s new residential towers on York Avenue and 60th Street
  • Development of new Manhattanville campus of Columbia University
  • Renovation of Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building

Recent Approvals

  • Hines/MOMA mixed use building on West 53rd Street
  • Weill Cornell College Medical building

Related Practices
Land Use
Education
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 J.D., Harvard Law School, 1959
  • Fulbright Fellowship
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 B.A., Harvard University, 1956
Bar Admissions
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 New York, 1960
Professional Affiliations
    -Real Estate Board of New York, Inc., Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee
    -Association for a Better New York, Founder, Director, and Vice President
    -Metropolitan Museum of Art, Honorary Trustee
    -American Friends of the Israel Museum, Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
    -Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, Chair of the Executive Committee
    -Real Estate Institute of Baruch College, Member of the Board of Trustees
    -UJA-Federation, Member of the Board of the Real Estate Committee
    -Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice, Member of the Advisory Board
    -Central Synagogue, Member of the Executive Committee and Vice President
    -Guild Hall of East Hampton, Member of the Executive Committee
    -New York State Council on the Arts, Member, 1976-1986, 1994-1999
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