Our Work
- “While the Landlord Renovates, Life in a Homeless Shelter” The New York Times, February 8, 2018
- “NYC to offer free legal services to small business owners“ Curbed, February 7, 2018
- “Eviction by Water Torture” Village Voice, January 18, 2018
- “City to Settle Discrimination Claim in Brooklyn Housing Plan” The New York Times, December 3, 2017
- “Williamsburg Tenants, Some Without Gas for Months, Rally to Have Service Restored“ NY1, November 29, 2016
- “This Tenant Harassment Story Has a Happy Ending“ WNYC, October 6, 2016
- “Tenant: City Must Pass Stronger Ban on ‘Construction-as-Harassment’” City Limits, February 2, 2016
- “After Suing, Tenant Comes Home to the Brooklyn Apartment She Was Made to Leave” New York Times, December 22, 2014
- “Brooklyn Legal Services- ‘Brooklyn A-‘ celebrates 44 years” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 3, 2012
- “Brooklyn Legal Services A Holds Annual Awards Benefit“ Daily Bulletin, November 30, 2012
- “Legal Services Provider Decides to Consolidate Brooklyn Outpost” New York Law Journal, August 20, 2012
- “Brooklyn A Keeps Up Shriver’s War on Poverty” Greenpoint Gazette, November 23, 2011
- “City Puts Housing Court Litigation Online” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 17, 2007
- “Brooklyn A’s 38th Anniversary Benefit Rakes in Record-Breaking Proceeds“ Brooklyn Daily Eagle November 16, 2006
- “An Elevator Named Marty – No, Really” The New York Times, March 8, 2005
- “Legal Services Corporation A Kicks Off 25th Anniversary Drive” The Brooklyn Daily Bulletin June 18, 1993
Op-Ed Pieces
- “Tenants stranded in city crackdown on 421-a taxbreak landlords” NY Daily News, December 8, 2016
- “Race lost for the new East New York: De Blasio’s Brooklyn building plan fails the discrimination test” NY Daily News, April 18, 2016
- “Black, white and wrong all over: De Blasio sides with segregation in Brooklyn’s Broadway Triangle“ NY Daily News, July 22, 2015
- “Throw the book at crooked landlords” NY Daily News, December 1, 2014
The Critical Need for Legal Services
The following are a sampling of resources that detail the vital role that legal services play in the ensuring of justice within our communities:
- “Legal Aid Services Are Being Starved” The Nation, March 22, 2018
- “Down the Rabbit Hole in a Rental War” The New York Times, March 8, 2013
- “Tipping the Scales in Housing Court” The New York Times, November 29, 2012
- “Venerable advocate for legal profession still keeps watch: Robert MacCrate marks anniversaries of State Bar, ABA presidencies, and his 90th birthday” New York State Bar News, July/August 2011
- “A Decades-Old Call to Pro Bono” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 20, 2011
- “Listen to Judge Lippman” The New York Times Editorial, March 13, 2011