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Howard A. Zipser

Of Counsel, Real Estate New York Land Use and Zoning

New York T: 212 880 3800

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Howard Zipser concentrates his practice in the area of land use and zoning and has worked on many of the largest and Areas of Experience most complicated zoning approvals in . He has New York Land Use and Zoning represented numerous prominent not-for-profit educational Real Estate institutions and hospitals in their land use approvals and real Land Use and Development estate developments, including major hospital expansions Real Estate and Construction over the FDR Drive for the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Education Howard also served as principal lawyer for hospital LL.M., Washington University School of Law, 1968 expansions which include the Mt. Sinai Hospital, Maimonides J.D., Washington University School of Law, 1966 Medical Center, the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and the B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1962 Montefiore Hospital, in the Bronx. Additionally, Howard has served as lead attorney for such major New York City developments as the in Manhattan and the Admissions 50-story Citigroup Building in Queens and the Americas Bars Tower Building adjacent to Rockefeller Center. New York Howard began his career first at a major planning firm and then served as the Deputy Director of the Manhattan Office of the NYC Department of City Planning.

Howard was then a partner at the Rosenman Colin law firm and worked for 28 years with Samuel H. Lindenbaum who was considered the City’s dean of zoning law. Prior to joining Akerman, Howard was the Chairman of the Zoning Department at the law firm of Stadtmauer Bailkin.

Howard has been a lecturer on Real Estate Property Law at the Real Estate Institute and has also lectured at Pratt Institute, Yale University, and School of Architecture. For over 30 years he has served as a Director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, New York’s premier planning and oversight organization.

Affiliations Citizens Housing and Planning Council, Board Member New York County Lawyers Association, Real Property Law Section, Zoning Committee, Past Chairman Member of the , Zoning Committee Inside Broadway, President New York Junior Tennis League, Past Vice President Board member of numerous non-profit housing organizations New York County Lawyers Association, Real Property Law Section, Zoning Committee, Past Chairman