A couple has been treating their ritzy, four-bedroom Central Park West pad like a boarding house and culinary school, a new lawsuit charges.
Gavin and Jodi Samuels, native South Africans who moved into the Olmsted Condominium on West 97th Street a decade ago, host monthly Shabbat dinners at $30 a head, run cooking classes for $15, and rent out the space for $1,400 a week, according to a filing in Manhattan Civil Court.
Despite a $5,500 fee and a cease-and-desist directive from the board in February, the Samuels still have bookings through December 2013, according to an online vacation-rental Web site.Gavin would only say that he needed “to seek legal counsel and then decide on next steps.” The couple founded Jewish International Connection, a networking group for immigrant Jews living in the Big Apple.