Attorney Bio

David S. Steinmetz

Mr. Steinmetz maintains an active land use and zoning practice, representing numerous major developers on a wide variety of residential, commercial, mixed-use and industrial projects. He also counsels private clients and municipalities on environmental and regulatory issues, and he supervises the firm’s real estate and transactional practice.

Mr. Steinmetz serves as a member of the Advisory Boards of a national bank and a major, national title insurance company. He is also very active in his community, having served two terms of elected office on the Yorktown Central School District’s Board of Education, and presently serves as a member of the Yorktown Athletic Recreational Commission.

Mr. Steinmetz received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law in 1985, where he received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Advocacy Award. He also received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1982. Prior to forming Zarin & Steinmetz in 1997, he was a partner at a leading Westchester County real estate and land development law firm. Mr. Steinmetz began his legal career as an associate at the New York City office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler in its Litigation Department (1985-1987).