Real Estate Attorneys

There were over 1,500 enrollments in the real estate courses of the West Side Young Men’s Christian Association, West Fifty-seventh Street, during its sixth school session, which has just closed. The history and ever-increasing popularity of these courses is a demonstration of the interest the people of New York take in realty matters.

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The Court of Appeals a few days ago handed down a decision that is of importance to those interested in the building loan business in this city.

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In another skirmish in the more than 100 years of battles over Shinnecock Indian lands, the tribe’s ownership of half an acre of bayfront property on the edge of its reservation in Southampton was upheld today by a state court.

The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled that the disputed property, which a Southampton resident bought from a developer for $60,000 two years ago, lay within the borders of the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.

The resident, William R. Pell, had planned to build a house on the property, and workers were clearing the land when tribe members sat down in front of the bulldozer and told Mr. Pell he was trespassing.

The Shinnecocks took the matter to James M. Catterson Jr., the Suffolk County District Attorney, who is required by the state’s Indian Law ”to eject invaders from the reservation.”

Mr. Catterson brought a civil suit, and a Suffolk County judge, John J. J. Jones Jr., ruled on Jan. 31, 1997, that the half-acre belonged to the tribe.

The disputed piece of property is in the northwest corner of the reservation, east of Old Fort Pond in the town of Southampton, whose real estate is some of the most expensive in the country.

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Ivan Shapiro, a real estate lawyer and former president of the Ethical Culture Society, who was also a leader in organizations concerned with civil liberties and the homeless, died Nov. 5. He was 69 and lived on the East Side of Manhattan.

The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, his wife, Maria, said.

Mr. Shapiro was born in New York City in 1928. He graduated from City College in 1948, and from Harvard Law School in 1951, specializing in real estate law. He became a partner at the law firms of Wein, Lane & Malkin and Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst before joining Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in 1981.

Parallel to his legal career, Mr. Shapiro became a leader of the Ethical Culture Society; he was its president from 1972 to 1978 and chairman of its schools from 1977 to 1982.

Mr. Shapiro also became a member of the New York Civil Liberties Union, joining its board in 1966 and later becoming its treasurer. There, he focused on abortion rights and the separation of church and state, a topic he often addressed in speeches broadcast from the Ethical Cultural Society’s Sunday meetings.

”He was someone who didn’t get the visibility, but he was a pillar of the development of the modern-day civil liberties union,” said Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. ”He helped frame some of the most important civil liberty issues of the late 20th century, and he did it in a humanistic way.”

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The briefs filed in the income tax cases are very exhaustive. First, on behalf of the New York appellants, is the general brief which sets out the following assignment of errors: [

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Jack Weprin, a real estate lawyer who was prominent in New York Jewish organizations and a benefactor of many, died on Sunday at Kutscher’s Country Club in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y. He was 65 and lived in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

The cause was a heart attack, said Andy Albstein, a friend and law partner.

Mr. Weprin was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn College. He received a degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1955 and was admitted to the bar the same year.

He was a partner in the firm of Goldberg, Weprin & Ustin, which specializes in real estate law.

Mr. Weprin was a member of the board of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, as well as of the museum in Jerusalem, and a longtime supporter of the UJA-Federation’s Real Estate Division. He also was a past president of the B’nai B’rith Real Estate Unit.

He was a board member of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a founder and benefactor of the West End Synagogue, which recently moved to Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street.

Mr. Weprin’s brother, Saul, who had been the New York Assembly Speaker since 1991, died in February 1994 after suffering a stroke.

Mr. Weprin is survived by his wife, Jane Abraham Weprin; a daughter, Julia Abedin of Manhattan; three sons, Michael, of Chappaqua, N.Y., and Andrew and Adam, both of Manhattan, and five grandchildren.

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At the lakefront cottage of Gov. John G. Rowland, so much came free of charge, including a hot tub, a heating system and a new ceiling. And now a Litchfield real estate agent has added another item to the list: the appraisal on the cottage before the governor bought it.

The agent, Cleveland Fuessenich, said in an interview this week that he had appraised the cottage at no charge in 1997, and had ‘’stayed up all night” to get it done, at the request of the director of the foundation that sold Mr. Rowland the property, holds its mortgage and is led by the governor’s appointee.

Mr. Rowland is being investigated by federal officials and a State House committee looking for a link between his receipt of gifts or favors and the awarding of state contracts.

Mr. Fuessenich he said he did not know the identity of the potential buyer until after he completed his appraisal of the cottage on Bantam Lake in Litchfield. But he recalled being asked to complete it quickly by Gene Marra, then the executive director of the foundation, the White Memorial Foundation, a conservation center.

”I do a considerable amount of pro bono work for the foundation,” Mr. Fuessenich said. Indeed, Keith R. Cudworth, the foundation’s executive director, said Mr. Fuessenich had volunteered services numerous times, including other appraisals.

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AN executive at a Manhattan telecommunications company lives in Peekskill and travels back and forth to Japan on business three times a year. A young psychiatrist in Scarsdale is treating a number of Japanese patients. An accounting firm in Hartsdale has a growing list of clients in West Germany.

AN executive at a Manhattan telecommunications company lives in Peekskill and travels back and forth to Japan on business three times a year. A young psychiatrist in Scarsdale is treating a number of Japanese patients. An accounting firm in Hartsdale has a growing list of clients in West Germany.

With joint business ventures between the United States, Japan and West Germany steadily increasing, so has the need for better communication. Yet American business people rarely have the language skills needed to communicate with their foreign counterparts.

Two foreign-language schools are responding to the need for such instruction among the growing number of Westchester companies that are active in international markets. One, the Japan-America Interchange, was established in Hartsdale in 1983. The other, Deutsches Haus at New York University, is opening a branch in White Plains this month. Both offer language courses specifically aimed at business people.

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Six two-family brick dwelling houses are to be built on Russell Avenue by R. H. Reid of 202 West Sixty-third Street at Oakdene Terrace. Edgewater, N.J., at an aggregate cost of $38,000 to $40,000. There is already a big demand for houses owing to the large number of industrial concerns now operating in that vicinity, such as Pyle’s Pearline Works, the New York Glucose factory, Batterson Eisle Marble Works, and the Warner Sugar Refinery.

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