The New York chapter of the Hells Angels are waging a turf war over their East Village clubhouse.
But this biker battle is playing out in court, where the intimidating motorcycle club is suing their late president’s family over rights to the building.
Sandy Alexander, a convicted drug dealer who ruled the roost at the Angels’ East 3rd Street headquarters in the mid-1980s, unilaterally changed the building’s deed in 1983 to name himself and his family as rent-free tenants, according to court papers.
Now the Angels are arguing in their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that Alexander’s deal died with him in 2007.
They are suing his second wife, Alison Glass Alexander, of Jamaica, Queens and his daughter from another marriage, Kimberly Alexander, of Needles, Calif. to prevent them from making a grab for the property.
A source told The Post that the members have no immediate plans to sell 77 E. 3rd St. — which is on the periphery of New York University’s $6 billion expansion plan and in a once-crime ridden neighborhood where one-bedrooms now rent for $3,500 a month — but they wanted to clear up the “cloudy deed.”
The decades-old agreement, obtained by The Post, says that Sandy’s heirs “shall receive half of the proceeds” from the sale of the six-story building that has around 10 apartments on the top five floors.
During his tenure Sandy lived above the clubhouse with his family.
But the Alexanders have been barred from the building for at least the past nine years, according to the suit. Sandy became estranged from the gang in the 1990s because of the ownership dispute, the source said.
He served six years in prison for dealing cocaine, but got out of jail in time to defend against a property seizure case brought by the federal government in 1994, which had claimed members of the Hells Angels manufactured and distributed methamphetamine out of the building.
A jury found there was not enough evidence for the feds to confiscate the property and the judge, Sonia Sotomayor, who now sits on the Supreme Court, declined to grant a retrial.
In the current case, the bikers want the court to declare them the sole owner of the clubhouse.
Neither Alison nor Kimberly Alexander could immediately be reached for comment.