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Secondhand smoke in Condos/Co-ops in
New York, United States
March 7, 2016
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Brooklyn
Long Island

Manhattan
New York City

Statewide

Yorkville

Brooklyn

1/24/14 Co-ops Chill, Condos Don’t New York times As a result of the change, he said, many residents have stopped smoking indoors, “in part because we will impose significant fines upon them if they do.”
12/31/12 Co-op / Condo News: Taxes, No Smoking and Farewell, Oscar Madison Habitat Magazine Plus, an upscale Brooklyn condo forbids smoking in apartments...
12/26/12 Posh Brooklyn condo bans smoking INSIDE apartments PIX 11 News Smokers living at one of Brooklyn’s most prestigious addresses can no longer smoke in their own apartments.
12/24/12 Luxury condo building in B'klyn bans smoking by owners and tenants New York Post The condo board for one of Brooklyn’s most prestigious addresses has banned smoking throughout the glass-walled building — including in residents’ private apartments.

Long Island

12/26/13 Unwanted Water and Smoke New York Times Q. The board of my co-op recently amended the house rules to prohibit smoking inside a resident shareholder’s apartment, even if they have been living there for years.

Manhattan

3/3/16

Manhattan Co-op Resident Wins $120K In Lawsuit Over Secondhand Smoke Infiltration

gothamist.com Habitat magazine reports that Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in his decision, "This Court...is only saying that if you want to avail yourself of the right to rent out residences, you assume the obligation to insure [sic] that your tenants are not forced to smell and breathe carcinogenic toxins."

Statewide

3/6/13 Second-Hand Smoke and Smoking Bans New York Law Journal In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Richard Siegler, of counsel to Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and Eva Talel, a partner at the firm, write that as the known risks associated with smoking increase, so do the number and intensity of smoking-related complaints received by co-op and condominium boards and managers, including demands that building-wide smoking bans be implemented.
1/30/13

Advising Boards on Handling Secondhand Smoke Issues

New York Law Journal In their Cooperative and Condominium Law column, Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. write that although there are at present very few reported cases on secondhand smoke infiltration, given the amount of inferior new construction and renovations that has occurred over the past decade, it is likely there will be a significant increase of litigation over smoke issues in the near future.

Yorkville

9/11/12 Butt Out: A Yorkville Condo Goes Smoke-Free. Here's How It Did It. HabitatMag.com When a building-wide smoking ban was put to unit-owners in the spring, an "overwhelming" majority approved, according to Budow.

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