Karma? Idiot may lose $100/mo upper east side apt bc of lawsuit

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$100/mo for 8 room upper east side apt? Wow. Dude's truly an idiot.

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100/month Upper East Side tenant loses suit to raze high-rise neighbor Chad Ian Lieberman’s grandfather made a deal with the landlord of the E. 86th St. apartment back in 1997 allowing the 25-story building next door to be built over an air shaft in exchange for the $100-a-month rent, court papers say. Now Lieberman is trying to get the high-rise torn down because it’s blocking light and air from his apartment, but a judge has ruled he knew what he was getting into. Call off the wrecking ball. A man has lost his bid to have the apartment building next door to him torn down on the grounds that it was blocking the light from his sprawling $100-a-month Upper East Side apartment. Despite having the best rent deal in New York City, Chad Ian Lieberman, 39, sued to block the 25-story Ventura building last year, charging it was illegally preventing light and air from entering three of the rooms in the rent-controlled eight-room apartment once inhabited by his grandfather. “Lieberman seeks a court order directing the adjoining owner to tear down a 25-story building, containing 246 apartments as well as a 30,000-square-foot supermarket,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anil Singh said in a ruling last week. Lieberman’s grandfather, Eric Oppenheimer, was living in the four-bedroom apartment at 244 E. 86th St. with his wife when the Ventura was being built back in 1997. Construction cost $99.2 million — and Oppenheimer cut a deal allowing his landlord, who owned the then-vacant lot next door, to build a part of the new building over an air shaft that had been providing light and air to three rooms in his apartment, court papers say. In return, the landlord agreed to reduce his rent from $687 a month to $100 for as long as he and his wife lived there. Lieberman moved in with Oppenheimer in 2009. Shortly after Oppenheimer died last year, Lieberman filed his suit charging the deal his grandfather made was illegal. He demanded the apartment be restored to its earlier condition. Singh found the agreement was legal, and that Lieberman knew what he was getting with the $100 apartment. “Oppenheimer agreed to less light and air in exchange for a benefit in the reduction of his rent. (Lieberman got the rent-controlled apartment after Oppenheimer’s death) with full knowledge that light and air had been decreased almost two decades ago,” the judge wrote. “Accordingly, he has no standing to challenge the agreements.” Lieberman and the lawyers for the two buildings did not return calls for comment. Court papers show Lieberman’s luck with the apartment may be running out — the landlord is trying to hike the rent, saying the $100 deal was only meant for Oppenheimer and his wife.

Karma? Idiot may lose $100/mo upper east side apt bc of lawsuit