Sherwin Belkin, prominent New York landlord-side attorney, to retire

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. “Over the years, I think it’s become an increasingly challenging environment to represent owners, managers, and developers,” Belkin said. “For small- and mid-size […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.