Any way to find this 2002 N.Y. Real Estate Law Reporter article today?
April 30, 2011 12:50 PM Subscribe
Desperately seeking article from 2002 N.Y. Real Estate Law Reporter
This is total shot in the dark, but I'm frantic. I'm a law student at St. John's University, in finals hell, desperately trying to locate this article:
Kenneth R. Jacobs, Right of Co-Op Corporations Compel Sponsors to Sell Apartments, 16 N.Y. REAL EST. L. REP. 1 (2002).
My computer crashed this morning and I lost a large amount of changes & footnotes to my scholarly paper, which is due today. This article is a huge source for my paper and I foolishly did not download it or print it out. Treehugger learned her lesson.
I had it saved in my Westlaw research history, but it's no longer accessible. Lexis & Westlaw are telling me that all AML subscriptions, including this one, are currently gone due to some contract dispute. I tried Heinonline, archives at my law school library, they called CUNY and Brooklyn Law, no luck. I even joined AML's New York Law Journal website (free 30 day trial, but had to put $200+ on my credit card which...ugh), but couldn't it find it there.
If anyone has any leads, I would really appreciate it. TIA.
This is total shot in the dark, but I'm frantic. I'm a law student at St. John's University, in finals hell, desperately trying to locate this article:
Kenneth R. Jacobs, Right of Co-Op Corporations Compel Sponsors to Sell Apartments, 16 N.Y. REAL EST. L. REP. 1 (2002).
My computer crashed this morning and I lost a large amount of changes & footnotes to my scholarly paper, which is due today. This article is a huge source for my paper and I foolishly did not download it or print it out. Treehugger learned her lesson.
I had it saved in my Westlaw research history, but it's no longer accessible. Lexis & Westlaw are telling me that all AML subscriptions, including this one, are currently gone due to some contract dispute. I tried Heinonline, archives at my law school library, they called CUNY and Brooklyn Law, no luck. I even joined AML's New York Law Journal website (free 30 day trial, but had to put $200+ on my credit card which...ugh), but couldn't it find it there.
If anyone has any leads, I would really appreciate it. TIA.
Are you saying you can't find a hard copy? Because libraries local to you should have it.
NYU's library only has the last two years. Cardozo may have it, though they are missing some issues. Fordham only has the last two years. Yeshiva may have it.
Not surprising that Cardozo and Yeshiva would have it, since they apparently help publish it.
posted by jedicus at 1:08 PM on April 30, 2011
NYU's library only has the last two years. Cardozo may have it, though they are missing some issues. Fordham only has the last two years. Yeshiva may have it.
Not surprising that Cardozo and Yeshiva would have it, since they apparently help publish it.
posted by jedicus at 1:08 PM on April 30, 2011
Response by poster: jedicus, yes, I emailed him about 15 minutes ago. Cardozo and Yeshiva are closed today (Shabbat).
posted by Majorita at 1:15 PM on April 30, 2011
posted by Majorita at 1:15 PM on April 30, 2011
The archives go back almost far enough. You could call over to ALM and see if they have hard copies.
The best advice, though, is to track down somebody at a big law firm in Manhattan. As long as the firm has a real estate department, they'll have the hard copies in the library, and the library will be open (or at least unloked) on Saturday (which is just a really-business-casual workday for NYC law firms.)
posted by MattD at 1:18 PM on April 30, 2011
The best advice, though, is to track down somebody at a big law firm in Manhattan. As long as the firm has a real estate department, they'll have the hard copies in the library, and the library will be open (or at least unloked) on Saturday (which is just a really-business-casual workday for NYC law firms.)
posted by MattD at 1:18 PM on April 30, 2011
I looked it up on NYPL.org (ny public library) and one of their research libraries claims to have it on site as an electronic resource from 1986 onwards (the hard copies listed don't seem to go outside of the 1990's).
Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL)
188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street
New York, NY 10016-4314
(917) 275-6975
The website says it closes at 6.
Please double check with a search on their website before making a frantic trip out there.
posted by NormieP at 2:03 PM on April 30, 2011
Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL)
188 Madison Avenue @ 34th Street
New York, NY 10016-4314
(917) 275-6975
The website says it closes at 6.
Please double check with a search on their website before making a frantic trip out there.
posted by NormieP at 2:03 PM on April 30, 2011
Looking deeper I'm not sure their resource has the right year.
posted by NormieP at 2:13 PM on April 30, 2011
posted by NormieP at 2:13 PM on April 30, 2011
Best answer: If finding the article itself isn't working out right now, then I would call up a computer repair place and ask about emergency data recovery options available to you. Best of luck.
posted by Sticherbeast at 2:27 PM on April 30, 2011
posted by Sticherbeast at 2:27 PM on April 30, 2011
Response by poster: liketitanic, thanks for that search. I tried the libraries listed there (a lot were firms), left messages. According to online lookup, CUNY Queens has it but they're closed. I also left messages/texts for professor friends at Penn State and UCSD.
MattD, I called around to my meager law firm connections. No one's answering. Can't say that I blame them -- NYC is having a gorgeous day.
NormieP, I just spoke to a very nice guy at the SIBL who told me their electronic resource only goes back to 2008, and their hard copy archives stop at 1997.
Sticherbeast, great suggestion. In my panicky tunnel vision, I stopped trying to recover the doc. I'm taking your advice now.
Thank you everyone.
posted by Majorita at 2:56 PM on April 30, 2011
MattD, I called around to my meager law firm connections. No one's answering. Can't say that I blame them -- NYC is having a gorgeous day.
NormieP, I just spoke to a very nice guy at the SIBL who told me their electronic resource only goes back to 2008, and their hard copy archives stop at 1997.
Sticherbeast, great suggestion. In my panicky tunnel vision, I stopped trying to recover the doc. I'm taking your advice now.
Thank you everyone.
posted by Majorita at 2:56 PM on April 30, 2011
Response by poster: Just wanted to follow up. I followed Sticherbeast's advice and managed to recover almost all of my document. Marked as best answer. And as a nice touch, the author emailed me the article today.
Thanks everyone!
posted by Majorita at 12:39 PM on May 2, 2011
Thanks everyone!
posted by Majorita at 12:39 PM on May 2, 2011
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posted by jedicus at 12:56 PM on April 30, 2011