NEW YORK CITY SIDEWALK SHEDS CLASS ACTION
ATTORNEY ADVERTISING
This website offers information about a class action lawsuit filed against New York City in March 2025.
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The lawsuit relates to the City’s laws that require owners of at-risk properties to construct sidewalk sheds that encroach on neighboring properties. The lawsuit is about the rights of blameless New Yorkers who are required to have someone else’s shed on their own property.
Under the U.S. Constitution’s Takings Clause, a government that appropriates private property—or that causes someone else to do so—owes money to the owner or renter whose property is appropriated. Based on these legal requirements, this lawsuit seeks compensation from the City for the thousands of blameless New Yorkers who have been forced to endure having a neighbor’s shed touch their property or occupy any part of their property.
If you’d like to read the complaint (the document that launched the lawsuit), you can find it here. The first few pages summarize the lawsuit.
We’d like to hear from you if:
• you currently own or rent property in NYC and that property is either (1) touched by a neighbor’s shed or (2) crossed onto by a neighbor’s shed, or
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• you previously owned or rented property in NYC that your neighbor’s shed touched or crossed onto.
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If you fit this description, please email us at NYCShedsLawsuit@bsfllp.com or complete this short form.