• EDWARD S. RUDOFSKY, ESQ
• ERIC S. HOROWITZ, ESQ

Eric S. Horowitz is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and Hofstra University School of Law, Uniondale, New York. Mr. Horowitz has been associated with Zane and Rudofsky since graduating from law school, and is a member of the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the American Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association. He specializes in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on real estate related matters.

Mr. Horowitz has represented owners of the Sears Tower in Chicago; the Bank America Center in San Francisco; The Wachovia Center in Winston-Salem; One HSBC Center in Buffalo; Pegasus Place Apartments in Lexington, and numerous commercial properties in New York City, including, but not limited to the Bed, Bath and Beyond Building (620 Avenue of the Americas); 855 Avenue of the Americas; 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (often cited as the birthplace of hip-hop); the International Toy Building; 40 Broad Street; Fordham Fulton Towers; and the Starrett-Lehigh Building (the latter being the 3rd largest commercial building in New York City).

Among the many litigations handled by Mr. Horowitz those of which are particularly notable are:

• Lerner v. Fleet Bank, 318 F.3d 113 (2nd Cir. 2003), where the firm represented 62 plaintiffs who were defrauded out of $44 million in the David Schick Ponzi scheme;


• In Re Robert J. Bradley, Sr., one of the largest Chapter 11 proceedings filed in the Western District of New York, where almost every "major firm" in Buffalo, New York had a conflict of interest due to the debtor's business dealings with almost every bank in the jurisdiction;


• In re Arvene Avenue Second Amended Urban Renewal Project, 44 A.D.2d 760 (2nd Dept. 2007), upholding the landlord's entitlement to the proceeds of an condemnation proceeding over the tenant's objections;


• Eight Cooper Equities v. Abrams, 143 Misc. 2d 52 (NY Supreme Court 1989), successfully overturning the New York State Attorney General's rejection of a condominium offering plan for 83-85 First Avenue;


• United States of America v. 55,325 Rentable Square Feet of Space etc., a relatively rare and complicated "war-time" condemnation proceeding commenced by the filing of a "declaration of taking" by the U.S. government following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, pursuant to which the government seized 2-½ floors and the garage of the Starrett-Lehigh Building to replace the destroyed Customs House space.

Mr. Horowitz has also represented the owner of forty-seven (47) buildings in East Harlem that were sold for in excess of $225 Million, as well as numerous other buyers and sellers in multi-million dollar commercial and residential real estate transactions.

Mr. Horowitz has received an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, an independent service which has rated attorneys nationwide for more than a century. An "AV" rating is the highest available rating meaning that Mr. Horowitz was recognized by his peers as having preeminent legal ability and a very high ethical conduct relevant to the discharge of his professional responsibilities.

Mr. Horowitz lives in Old Bethpage, New York, with this wife and four children. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Plainview/Old Bethpage Soccer League and is the Director of the League's Top Soccer Program, a program for young athletes with developmental disabilities.

Mr. Horowitz recently served as a Member of the Host Committee for the Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Promises Dinner that raised nearly $1 million to support advanced breast cancer research.

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Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Non-Profit & Religious Corporation
Zoning Litigation
Administrative Law

Education

J.D., Hofstra University Law School, 1984
B.S.B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; Washington University, 1980

Bar Admissions

New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of NY

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association
New York County Lawyers Association