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John counsels clients in a broad range of matters involving zoning and municipal law, public finance, commercial transactional real estate and commercial litigation and civil litigation. He concentrates on land use development matters, representing clients in municipalities throughout Long Island. He also serves as counsel to corporations and other clients in matters involving zoning and municipal law, as well as civil litigation.

John also has experience with transactional matters related to the purchase, sale and leasing of residential and commercial real estate, as well as being transaction counsel in Industrial Development Agency matters. That includes the negotiation, reviewing and drafting of residential and commercial purchase and sale agreements, leases and mortgage loan documents.

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New York
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Hofstra University School of Law

JD 

St. Joseph’s College

BA 
magna cum laude

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Commercial Real Estate
Environmental
Public Finance and Economic Development

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Energy
Real Estate Developers
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John J. Anzalone

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Harris Beach Murtha Attorneys at Law
Partner John J. Anzalone

John J. Anzalone

janzalone@harrisbeachmurtha.com
D: (516) 880-8108
Long Island, NY Office

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John counsels clients in a broad range of matters involving zoning and municipal law, public finance, commercial transactional real estate and commercial litigation and civil litigation. He concentrates on land use development matters, representing clients in municipalities throughout Long Island. He also serves as counsel to corporations and other clients in matters involving zoning and municipal law, as well as civil litigation.

John also has experience with transactional matters related to the purchase, sale and leasing of residential and commercial real estate, as well as being transaction counsel in Industrial Development Agency matters. That includes the negotiation, reviewing and drafting of residential and commercial purchase and sale agreements, leases and mortgage loan documents.

Areas of Expertise

Legal Practices

Member of:

Commercial Real Estate
Environmental
Public Finance and Economic Development

Industry Teams

Member of:

Energy
Real Estate Developers

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Admissions

New York

Representative Matters

  • Represented Sunrise Wind with the development of an approximately 880-megawatt offshore wind farm. Negotiated license and easement rights with local municipalities, prepared and coordinated alienation with New York State, negotiated a Payments-In-Lieu of Taxation, Sales and Use Tax Exemptions and a 25-year Host Community Agreement. While such a project is generally immune from local zoning, firm attorneys appeared before the Central Pine Barrens Commission and obtained discretionary environmental land use approval to allow improvements in the core preservation area on the Long Island Pine Barrens and local approvals for improvements that are not immune from zoning and land use regulations. In addition, assisted with coordinating the filing and prosecution of building permit and New York State Department of State variance applications.
  • Represented Propel with the siting of a regional transmission line. Negotiated the license and easement rights with local municipalities in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties, as well as the City of New York; held meetings with townships along the project route; and prepared private easements and utility crossing agreements.
  • Represented Catholic Health of Long Island in the development of large-scale hospital expansions/modernizations of six hospital campuses, as well as the siting, acquisition and development of outpatient treatment locations. Represented Catholic Health of Long Island for the development of an approximately 300,000-square-foot pavilion by providing counsel throughout its design, overseeing the strategy for a complex SEQRA process, as well as obtaining all discretionary approvals from municipal boards required to construct the $500 million project.
  • Represented Mount Sinai Hospital on zoning, land use, economic development and environmental matters related to multiple expansion and new development projects, including a new addition to the hospital’s main campus in the Town of Hempstead, Oceanside, and the construction of a new health care facility in the City of Long Beach. Assisted with complying with FEMA funding requirements, SEQR guidelines and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation rules and regulations. Negotiated and interfaced with FEMA on a $154 million grant, environmental assessment of the improvement projects, modifications thereto and the compliance thereof with FEMA Environmental and Historic Preservation requirements.
  • Successfully defended one of the largest day camp operators in the northeast in an Article 78 proceeding by drafting legal memorandums and affidavits, as well as coordinating the legal defense and production of the record with the local Town Attorney’s office.
  • Successfully defended the approvals of Mount Sinai South Nassau predicated on the novel use of the doctrine of merger as a ground to permit a use in a zone where not permitted without a change of zone or use variance.
  • Served as counsel to the Town of Brookhaven in connection with its applications to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to expand an existing landfill to permit a new ash fill.
  • Represented the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency by conducting the SEQRA review, as well as drafting, negotiating and executing the transaction documents for the Superblock development, which consisted of approximately $158 million and $211 million projects, totaling 620,000 square feet of multifamily residential housing and commercial space on an oceanfront site that had been vacant for four decades.
  • Represented the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency by conducting the SEQRA review, as well as the drafting, negotiation and execution of the transaction documents, drafting, negotiating and executing the transaction documents for the approximately $71.7 million Amazon.com/Syosset Park development, which consisted of 204,175 square feet of warehouse space on a long vacant brownfield that had been the subject of numerous litigations and failed redevelopments over the prior three decades.
  • Represented the Suffolk County Industrial Development drafting, negotiating and executing the transaction documents for the multiple-location Spectronics development, which consisted of 85,556-square-foot manufacturing plant and its 24,244-square-foot corporate headquarters.
  • Represented the Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency in drafting, negotiating and executing the transaction documents for multifamily straight leases.
  • Served as zoning counsel to the Broome County Industrial Development Agency, filing a change of zone application and working with the Town of Conklin to get the property rezoned to permit the IDA to sell the property to Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. and allow for the construction of a cross dock distribution center, ultimately getting the Town to approve it on their own motion. The project also involved the negotiation of a utility easement to cure a potential adverse possession.
  • Received parking variance and use variance approvals to permit a regional theater in the Town of North Hempstead.
  • Received a change of zone and related variances to permit the sale and modernization of a 132,836-square-foot tennis center.
  • Obtained variance approvals for the first East-End Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian medical facility.
  • Provided SEQRA services to the Town of Huntington to create overlay zones over 163 parcels in the Town of Huntington to allow for additional redevelopment options of industrial-zoned land.
  • Zoning and entitlement work for ground-up developments, redevelopments and rehabilitation of existing properties, including medical office buildings, convenience store conversions of gas station repair shops, recreational facilities, restaurants, self-storage facilities and factories across Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
  • Zoning and entitlement work for utility scale battery energy and wind energy facilities.
  • Obtained a Core Preservation Area Hardship Waiver from the Central Pine Barrens Commission allowing for the realization of a preferred siting route of a major transmission cable.
  • Leasing and acquisitions of commercial properties.
  • Providing zoning compliance review in furtherance of energy and commercial development acquisitions.
  • Drafting and negotiating commercial leases, covenants and reciprocal easement agreements.

Distinctions

Professional and Civic

  • New York State Bar Association, member
  • Suffolk County Bar Association, member

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers, Land Use and Zoning Law, since 2027
  • Best Lawyers, Corporate Law, 2025
  • Long Island Business News, Who’s Who In Real Estate Law, 2023
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