A Hell's Kitchen pizza shop is facing eviction for the first time in 24 years, all because of “vibrations” suddenly felt in the apartments above that may have come from the subway, a post says. The paper reported.
According to court documents, the Slice of New York pizza shop received a 15-day notice from its landlord to resolve the reported issues by Thanksgiving or face eviction.
But an architect hired by the pizza shop said an investigation was needed to determine the cause of the shaking, and the pizza shop's owner begged a Manhattan judge to give him more time to resolve the issue. He argued that structural repairs could take months to address.
“It's been a crazy two weeks,” owner Camila Garlick, 40, told the Post on Wednesday. “This is not a two-week surgery.”
Clinton Housing Development Company owns and operates an affordable and supportive housing building on Eighth Avenue near West 46th Street with Slice Spot and 70 one-bedroom apartments with SRO and on-site services. It is operated.
A representative for the nonprofit said the pizza restaurant had known about the vibration problem for some time and only submitted a 15-day notice to the owner to get him to take action.
Last summer, the city's Department of Buildings fined the landlord $625 after a tenant upstairs first complained about the vibrations, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Garlick said her uncle, who opened the slice shop in 2000 and sold it to her in 2019, went upstairs to see if the parlor's exhaust system was the culprit, but found no vibrations at all. It is said that
Garlick said she contacted the building's management but received no response until her short notice two weeks ago.
“We don't know what it is yet, but they just think we're the problem,” said Garlick, who lives in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
In a letter filed in court, an architect hired by Mr. Garlick said that if the pizza restaurant was indeed to blame, the problem could take months to resolve, and that the vibrations were caused by the “MTA “It may have been caused by a running subway train.” [sic] Walkway under the building,” the filing states.
But company representatives said they were confident the pizza shop was the source of the quake.
“It's a serious noise problem.” joe restocciaCHDC's executive director, added that multiple tenants were “losing their minds” to the vibrations.
He also rejected Mr. Garlick's claim that the company was an unresponsive party, arguing that it was Mr. Garlick who failed to communicate, leading him to issue the 15-day notice.
“They've known about this for months,” Restuccia said. “The only thing left to do is respond.”
Restoccia called Garlick a “great long-time tenant” and said he had no intention of actually evicting him.
“We want to keep them,” he said. “Commercial tenants are the lifeblood of this building.”
Restuccia said another pizza shop in another building in the company's 75-property portfolio had similar issues, but was able to mitigate the negative impact fairly quickly.
Restoccia said CHDC is committed to being good stewards of the property and is currently undergoing an approximately $15 million renovation project to the building, with a new tenant, Friedman's Restaurant, occupying the vacant building. He said he is already paying rent at the corner retail store that looks like this.
“We have to live together. We all have to do our part,” Restoccia told the Post.
Garlick said she was closed for a year because CHDC granted generous rent relief during the coronavirus pandemic, and said she would be happy to resolve the issue once the cause is confirmed.
“If we have a problem, we’re happy to solve it,” Garlick told the Post. “I have to do it. If I'm causing trouble to someone, I want to fix the problem.”
