Well, looks like New York is getting a little whacko! (more than normal I guess) A couple in a famed apartment building that has been home to the likes of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Igor Stravinsky and Angelina Jolie are suing a neighbor over her heavy smoking. Lawyers Jonathan and Jenny Needleman Selbin say in a lawsuit filed Thursday that their home in the Ansonia on Manhattan’s Upper West Side “smells like a casino” because a chain-smoking neighbor, Galila Huff, filled their apartment and the hallways with smoke almost daily from their arrival in 2003 until last year. Huff, who owns Caffe La Fenice at Broadway and 69th Street, admitted when reached at home that she was a smoker. She said she knew about the lawsuit but could not discuss it.
Huff’s smoke sometimes came directly into the Selbins’ apartment through vents from shared duct work, court papers say. The couple said they worried about the “grave danger” the secondhand smoke posed to their son Charlie, who is now nearly 4.
The attorney couple said Friday that the building’s management renovated the ducts in early 2007 and mostly fixed that problem, but the renovations did nothing to address the secondhand smoke wafting through the hallways.
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