Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in New York

Our neighbor has violated town code in the past and subdivided a single family home into 5 apartments. We sucessfully asked for intervention from the town and all but one apartment was left. There were numerous code violations that had to get fixed before the one bedroom apartment was able to be rented. Yesturday a moving van pulled in and they started moving furnature and mattresses into the apartment. We went onto our backyard deck and photographed mattreses being carried up the staircase in the backyard into the apartment. Our neighbors photographed from their home across the street. We live in the town of Brookhaven on Long Island in NY.

In order to have code enforcement come by we needed proof that the apartment was rented. At a public town meeting in November I presented photographs of the house from the same vantage point, but their were no people in the picture. Today a police officer stopped by to tell us they called in a complaint about me photographing the movers carrying in the mattresses in the apartment. I told the officer the story and explained I did not tresspass on their property to shoot the photos. I did not ask the officer if it was legal to shoot a picture from my deck into my neighbor's back yard. Did I violate a law?

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