DAVID M. BERGER
PARTNER
Many attorneys claim to understand and handle your real estate based dispute. David Berger has a proven track record of successfully representing a wide variety of real estate interests, drawing on his background both as a staff attorney for a governmental housing agency and as a commercial real estate investor throughout New York City. It is this unusual combination of real estate litigation and investment experience that enhances his transactional work, from closing complicated real estate deals to drafting mezzanine financing.
David epitomizes representation as it should be. With a good sense of humor and a broad yet detailed understanding of the intricacies of legal procedures, he exemplifies the rock-solid and creative work that Berger Fink LLP affords its clients. For over two decades, he has successfully and artfully litigated the battles that needed to be fought and settled the controversies that needed to be resolved. Often referred to as the imaginative intellectual, he has never shied away from the impossible encounter, nor from pushing forward when opportunity for the client presented itself.
Early on in his career, David made a name for himself when he encountered the start of mass-evictions of low-income denizens of certain Mitchell-Lama housing developments, just so that the City of New York could resolve its own housing discrimination shortfalls.
He initially filed a Federal Civil Rights suit on behalf of the group (Adler v. Kent Village Housing Co. & City of N.Y.,123 F.Supp.2d 91 (E.DN.Y. 2000)) and then ultimately and successfully represented those very same families seven years later before the Appellate Division in the New York State Courts. (Waldman v. Department of Housing Preservation & Development, 36 A.D.3d 501 (1st Dept. 2007)). Later, David also successfully represented seventeen property owners in putting the City’s Section 8 housing subsidy program in its place. (Flosar Realty LLC v. New York City Housing Authority, 127 A.D.3d 147 (1st Dept. 2015)).
EDUCATION
J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1993
B.A., Rabbinical Seminary of America, 1990
BAR ADMISSION
New York State Bar