Susan Cohen

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  www.citylimits.org/content/articles/weeklyView.cfm?arti - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/16/2004    Last Visited: 8/17/2004  

  That comes as no surprise to Susan Cohen, senior staff attorney with Legal Services of New York's Manhattan office, who has worked with SRO tenants for 15 years."SROs are disappearing as the economic pressure to use properties more lucratively increases," she said.

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  Battle at Breslin as boutique moves in - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/13/2008    Last Visited: 4/12/2009  

  The original Breslin Tenants Association had NYC Legal Services lawyer and SRO specialist Susan Cohen, who has been working on and off with harassment issues at the hotel since the '80s, representing them.
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  Cohen, counsel for the original Breslin Tenants Association, helped residents launch a suit last December against the hotel claiming that tenants were harassed by their landlord and that HPD failed to protect them.
  
  The suit came in response to an administrative law judge's ruling in August 2007 that there was no evidence of tenant harassment by management. The judge ruled that the Breslin's application for a certificate of no harassment should be granted, which cleared the way for management to convert rooms for high-end, transient use. (The case has since been referred to the Appellate Division.)
  
  Cohen was reluctant to discuss the case, but she said she hasn't moved on it yet and neither has GFI. They are still in negotiations, and "neither side is in a rush if we're going to resolve these issues."
  
  She contended she sees two major ongoing issues for tenants: Where they will live and basic quality-of-life concerns. "The law provides for essential services like heat and hot water," she said. "I'm working to make sure that happens."
  
  But Cohen has fewer resources now than when she first met with the association in 2006.
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  But after Doherty moved on to a new position, Cohen has been handling it alone.
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  Cohen said GFI has applied to the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal for several reduction-of-service applications-among them, removing the tenants' sitting room in the lobby, limiting all tenants to one elevator and moving the laundry room out of the basement. Although the applications haven't been approved yet, on a recent visit to Breslin, it appeared that building management has already begun making those changes.
  
  Cohen remembers when the tenants' sitting room was created back in the '80s, complete with a bathroom and TV.

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  Hotel Breslin tenants fight back as investors move in - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/6/2007    Last Visited: 4/12/2009  

  “They were very careful, these women,” said Cohen, now with Legal Services of New York, of the Breslin’s transgender residents.
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  According to Cohen, who was then with MFY Legal Services, “Suddenly he wanted to make apartments,” and got started without permits. In 1984, Cohen secured a stop-work order on behalf of the tenants, although not before the workmen had already created a number of apartments, attaching kitchens and bathrooms to some of the larger rooms.
  
  “He also began advertising, and getting a more upscale kind of tenant,” said Cohen, which meant people like Foster, or musician and multimedia artist Stephen Colvin, who arrived in 1984.
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  Other changes, said Cohen, included the addition of a tenant TV room, near the lobby.
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  Cohen and McDonough began to collect tenant histories to explore the possibility of harassment by Haddad and GFI.

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  Housing Activists’ Fall Agenda (Gotham Gazette.... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/1/2006    Last Visited: 9/18/2006  

  The remedy a repair board offers "is not repairs; it's fines," said Susan Cohen, an attorney at MFY Legal Services.

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  Jane Wood, tenant activist, dies at age 96 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/25/2004    Last Visited: 3/25/2004  

  Susan Cohen, a lawyer with Legal Services of New York City, said it was Jane Wood's influence that made her go to law school."I met her like everyone else because of problems with my landlord," Cohen said.

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  Kwong Hui for NY City Council 2001 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/29/2001    Last Visited: 11/6/2001  

  Susan M. Cohen , a lawyer with M.F.Y. Legal Services , which is representing the coalition in the suit , called the B.S.A. decision fundamentally flawed..She said the group is taking issue with several points in the resolution and in the developer's testimony , but their major concern is that no environmental impact study was done.
  
  The B.S.A. violated both the city and the state environmental laws by failing to look at the environmental effects of the project , and that includes the socioeconomic impacts as well , said Cohen.
  
  In their resolution , the B.S.A. commissioners stated that no environmental impact statement would be needed for the project since they saw no foreseeable significant environmental impacts..
  
  Cohen said the coalition also claims that misleading information about the neighborhood was submitted as evidence for financial hardship by Edison Parking during the B.S.A. hearing on the project.
  
  The B.S.A. really relied on some inconclusive and misleading numbers supplied by the developer , said Cohen.They based the decision on facts that were inaccurate..
  
  She cited several examples of claims the group believes are misleading , most notably their belief that Edison selected higher-income parts of the neighborhood to support their claim that gentrification has already taken hold in the neighborhood.
  
  They designed this in such a way that the poorer areas are not included , Cohen said.

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  Legal Services Staff Association - About Us - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/14/2009    Last Visited: 3/14/2009  

  Susan Cohen scohen@lssa2320.org

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  MFY - About MFY - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/2/2003    Last Visited: 1/2/2003  

  Susan M. Cohen

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  New York State Breast Cancer Support and Education... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/26/2006    Last Visited: 12/6/2009  

  NYSBCSEN Chair Susan Cohen will participate in a panel discussion on
  
  NYSBCSEN Chair Susan Cohen testifies before the New York State Health Research Science Board
  
  Young Survival Coalition Presents Poster at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
  
  Susan Cohen, Chair of the New York State Breast Cancer Network Testifies at the New York State Assembly Public Hearing on The Family Health Care Decision Act
  
  Advocate Musa Mayer reports back from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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  Print all Elerts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/4/2001    Last Visited: 9/8/2004  

  Susan M. Cohen, a senior staff attorney at MFY, says, "[F]or the moment, at least, we have stopped the tallest building in a low-rise neighborhood."She adds, "The message here is that if you provide material misinformation you have to go back to the drawing board."

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