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Lawyerly Lairs: A Landlord/Tenant Lawyer's $30 Million Mansion

The scourge of New York City landlords is a lord himself -- with a $30 million castle.

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On New York’s Upper East Side, just down the street from my high school, sits a magnificent mansion. As my classmates and I walked past on our way to gym class in Central Park, I’d wonder: who lives at 7 East 84th Street?

A titan of finance, like a bulge-bracket banker or a hedge-fund god? The CEO of a Fortune 100 company? A reclusive heir or heiress?

Actually, no. It’s the home of a landlord/tenant lawyer. And not even a landlord-side lawyer, but a champion of tenants’ rights.

The scourge of New York City landlords is a lord himself — with a $30 million castle. Can you believe it?

We learned of the news via Curbed:

A six-story, 13,000-square-foot mansion at 7 East 84th Street has just come on the market for the first time in almost two decades with an asking price of $30 million. Located within the confines of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District, the 129-year-old house has been renovated and maintained — although not modernized (aesthetically, at least) — by its current owner, fearsome (to developers) tenants’ rights lawyer David Rozenholc, who, with his wife, purchased it in 1996 for an undisclosed amount.

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Ah, so David Rozenholc and Dena Weiner bought this home a long, long time ago — early in the reign of Rudy, before the huge run-up in New York real estate prices. That explains a lot (just as it explains how a law professor wound up in a $13 million home). I could see a successful plaintiffs’ lawyer living in a $30 million mansion, but a landlord/tenant lawyer seems like an unlikely owner of such an abode.

In fairness, if any tenants’ lawyer would live in such a home, it would be the spectacularly successful Rozenholc. He has been scoring victories against landlords for years, from defeating the Donald in 1986 to securing seven-figure buyouts for rent-controlled tenants in the 1990s (and taking a one-third cut).

If any of his clients get evicted, they can go live with Rozenholc. He certainly has enough space for them….

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