Stuart Beckerman | Partner

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Stuart Beckerman is a partner in the Law Office of Slater & Beckerman LLP, where he specializes in construction permitting, zoning and land use in New York City. Mr. Beckerman has worked on zoning map amendments in Midtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx; a zoning special permit for a telecommunications tower serving the City's major airports and emergency services; a zoning variance to permit the construction of a new Harlem office for the Legal Aid Society; and a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit for an advertising sign in the Gansevoort Historic District. Mr. Beckerman previously served as Deputy Counsel to the Land Use Division of the New York City Council and, prior to that, as Deputy Counsel to the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, the City's zoning board.

Mr. Beckerman has been an active member of the Land Use Zoning and Planning Committee of the New York City Bar Association. In June 2006 and again in June 2007, he was Co-Chair and Speaker in a continuing legal education seminar on the transfer of development rights. In January 2004, he moderated a program on zoning as a tool of social and economic reform.

Mr. Beckerman received a J.D. degree from the Cardozo School Law of Yeshiva University and a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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