by Barrett Seaman – When asked the standard cocktail party question, “What do you do?” Rich Lobel’s answer is simple: “I’m a lawyer.” Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that. True, he is an attorney. He practices zoning law in Manhattan, spending his working hours running from community board to community board in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and to hearings before the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA), the ultimate arbiter of what gets built where in New York […]
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