Hotels, parking garages, condos, walk-up apartment buildings – everywhere you look, Brooklyn property owners are behind on paying their property taxes, way above the city average, with no relief in sight.

By Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses “Downtown New Yorkers Inc. v. NYC,” where a petition to block New York City from Relocating homeless people from the Lucerne Hotel to the Radisson Hotel was dismissed, and “Ellis v. Town of E. Hampton,” where adverse possession against government-owned land was denied.

The Sheraton LaGuardia East in Flushing used to buzz with hundreds of tourists, business travelers, conference-goers and banquet attendees. The 173-room hotel operated at 80 to 90 percent capacity most days, with 180 employees welcoming guests at the front desk, cleaning rooms, preparing food and catering large gatherings.

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A big television and radio ad campaign started Wednesday from the city’s struggling hotel industry.

85% of hotels, in New York, closed on March 22, 2020, the day after the announcement of the pause order, which included travel restrictions within the state. The New York Hotel Association highlights the challenges for this industry whose situation, it estimates, has caused at least 25,000 jobless rates and to date it sees few options for recovery. Laura Sepúlveda, correspondent for the Voice of America, spoke with the president of the Association.