Michael Pollack

October 28, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The plan would increase costs for residents and small businesses while doing very little to deal with the rats. And it will further perpetuate the city's "not-our-responsibility" approach to the quality and maintenance of sidewalk spaces that are essential to the quality of life of every New Yorker.

By Michael Pollack

4 minute read

December 06, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

As the 1840s began, Philadelphia was simmering with economic, racial and religious tensions fueled by political fragmentation within the city and its surrounding districts, escalating gang warfare, and increasing job competition between ethnic and racial groups, particularly African-American and Irish workers.

By Casey Ryan and Michael Pollack

6 minute read