Queens Buddhists claim they’re being bullied by their building.
Flora Wang, abbess of the Western Supreme Buddha Temple, says board members of the Barclay House in Flushing tricked her into laying out $470,000 for a unit — and then barged in during her congregation’s grand opening and said she could only use the condo for medical purposes.
Wang bought the unit in December 2010 to use as a house of worship and was never informed of the space’s restrictions, she claims in Queens Supreme Court papers.
More than 100 guests were on hand for the temple’s July grand-opening ceremony when, Wang says, Barclay House board members burst in “at that sacred moment” and began “yelling, harassing, intimidating, and insulting [her], which seriously damaged the solemnity and serenity of the temple’s ceremony,” she charges in court documents.
The abuse allegedly included someone spraying graffiti on the unit’s front door and “gang members” who “threatened to solve the dispute in an illegal way,” Wang alleges.
Acting as her own lawyer, she’s filed two lawsuits against Barclay House, its board members, and the realty firm who sold her the unit, seeking a total of $1.7 million in damages as well as a refund of her $470,000 purchase price.
The Barclay House board members could not be reached for comment.