It’s the end of an era for New York’s landlord class: Sherwin Belkin is retiring.
Belkin, a co-founding partner at Belkin Burden Goldman, is perhaps one of the city’s best-known landlord-side attorneys. After 50 years of practicing law, he plans to retire in October.
His departure closes out a decadeslong career spent in the trenches of the rent-stabilization, where he had a front-row seat to New York’s ever-shifting housing laws and the increasingly fraught politics surrounding them…