{"id":98770,"date":"2026-01-13T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98770\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:52:10","slug":"ny-top-court-backs-nycs-conversion-fee-for-soho-noho-lofts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98770\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Top Court Backs NYC\u2019s Conversion Fee for SoHo, NoHo Lofts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s requirement that residents of certain buildings in Lower Manhattan pay a fee to convert those buildings from artist quarters to residential use is constitutional, the state\u2019s highest court <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/bkDH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeals rejected the Coalition for Fairness in SoHo and NoHo Inc.&#8217;s argument that the fee infringes on the property rights of building owners, tenants, and other residents of neighborhoods located south and north of Houston Street in Manhattan. The court overturned a <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/bkDL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lower appellate court order<\/a> finding the requirement unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition \u201cfailed to identify any compensable property interest\u201d under the Fifth Amendment\u2019s takings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s requirement that residents of certain buildings in Lower Manhattan pay a fee to convert those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,45502,6764],"class_list":{"0":"post-98770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-takings","14":"tag-zoning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}