148th CityLaw Breakfast Featuring Former New York City Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer Samuel Schwartz, P.E.

• Legal, Politics & Economics

New York Law School’s CityLaw Breakfast Series continues with featured guest Samuel Schwartz, President and CEO of Sam Schwartz Consulting, LLC.

Sam Schwartz Consulting, LLC is a firm that specializes in transportation planning and engineering. Mr. Schwartz also writes columns on traffic for The New York Daily News and the Downtown Express. Previously he was New York City’s Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the New York City Department of Transportation. He started his transportation career in the late 1960s as a cab driver and joined the Traffic Department as a junior engineer in 1971. He is often referred to by his nom de plume, “Gridlock Sam.”

Anthony W. Crowell, Dean and President of New York Law School, and Professor Ross Sandler, founding director of the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School, will give opening remarks.

CityLaw breakfasts are held six to eight times a year at New York Law School and feature prominent speakers discussing current government and political issues. They are free and open to the public; however, donations are welcome. An audience Q&A follows each speaker’s remarks.

This is the 148th CityLaw Breakfast. Video presentations from past CityLaw Breakfasts can be viewed here. Founding sponsors of the breakfasts include Consolidated Edison, Verizon, and Greenberg Traurig LLP. The special sponsors for this breakfast are Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, ASHNU International Inc., and AI Engineers, Inc.