Press
- “Court Finds Co-op Board Discriminated Against Buyer Suffering From Cancer” (Registration Required), The New York Law Journal, June 20, 2007. (“Mr. Vernon [representing a prospective co-op purchaser] said that the judge’s finding that the co-op board had violated anti-discrimination laws was ‘premised upon a finding that for someone in Dr. Hassapoyannes’s circumstances, a washer/dryer is required as a reasonable accommodation to his disability.‘” The court held, “If the Coop Board may not inquire about a disability, it should not be permitted to penalize a prospective purchaser for failing to volunteer information about that disability as that would defeat the purpose and policy of the law.”)
- “Panel Weighs Compensation In Rent Stabiliation Case” (Registration Required), New York Law Journal, July 1, 2005.
- “Worse Than His Bite”, The New Yorker, June 28, 2004
- “The Apthorp as Waterloo”, New York Observer, January 19, 2009.
- “Apoplectic at the Apthorp”, New York Magazine, September 30, 2007.
- “She Bops Lease: Lauper’s a winner in rent-slash ruling”, New York Daily News, July 1, 2005. (“It was a win,” said Darryl Vernon, attorney for Lauper and her husband, actor David Thornton. “This was not a case about Cyndi Lauper … wanting to get low rent, but it really was about an elaborate scheme by a landlord to unlawflly get apartments off rent stabilization.”)
- “She Bops Landlord”, The New York Post, May 30, 2005.
- South Brooklyn Legal Services Fourth Annual Friendraiser Honoring Cyndi Lauper & David Thornton For their victory as tenants in the NYS Court of Appeals [PDF]
- “NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: EAST VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD MYSTERY; Whither ‘Dog Man’ and Dogs?”, The New York Times, February 5, 1995. (“Thanks to Vernon & Ginsburg, a Manhattan law firm that handled his case pro bono and put him in touch with a social worker, Mr. Feinstein no longer lives on the street.”)
- “Pet Rules and Restrictions: It’s a Dog’s Life”, The Cooperator, June 2008. (“Boards should treat this very seriously and understand that the laws that protect the disabled are not trumped by any rules of the board or co-op or condo,” says Vernon. “If a person has a disability and an accommodation animal is allowed under the law, a board cannot simply say ‘We do not allow such an animal.’ In short, a board must reasonably accommodate all disabled people.”)
- “New Breed of Lawyer Gives Every Dog His Day in Court”, The New York Times, September 3, 2006.
- “Another Thing Peter Vallone Hates: Pit Bulls”, Gothamist, December 26, 2006. (“[L]awyer Darryl Vernon points out that ‘Twenty years ago, German shepherds were thought of as dangerous dogs. Now they’re patrolling our borders and sniffing out bombs; now they’re patriotic dogs.’”) Related: “Pit Bulls Are Weapons, Not Pets, Lawmaker Seeking Ban Says,” The New York Sun, December 26, 2006
- “Fido Is Meeting the Co-op Board, and Learning to Beg”, The New York Times, January 9, 2000.
- “Buildings Tightening the Leash on Dogs”, The New York Times, August 30, 1998.
- “The Bark Stops Here: Rudy Suspends Order to Evict Tenants With Dogs,” The New York Post, December 7, 1994.
- “City Policy a Dog-gone Disgrace,” New York Daily News, December 8, 1994. (“Vernon, representing an elderly Lower East Side woman named Lourdes Barriera who is being threatened with eviction for refusing to part with her … dog. * * * Vernon … has devoted much of his time defending pet owners facing city evictions.”)
