It took him 73 years, but a Manhattan real-estate boss has finally had enough of his nagging mother — so he’s suing to get the 96-year-old woman out of his life.
Kenneth Rosenblum, 73, owns 13 properties with mom Bernice Rosenblum, 96, through their Greenwich Village-based company, Standard Associates.
“Over the last several years, [mother and son] have become embroiled in disagreements and business disputes that are so severe that all confidence and cooperation between them has been destroyed,” the son says in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
Bernice “has ceaselessly belittled [Kenneth] in front of others, including tenants, vendors and employees, causing him great distress and interfering with his ability to carry out his responsibilities in the business,” according to court papers.
The “objectionable, disruptive and abusive behavior in the office has completely alienated the business’s employees and has caused at least two key employees to threaten to resign,” the put-upon son says in the suit.
It’s gotten so bad that the mom has driven her son out of the office and they’ve stopped speaking altogether, Kenneth says.
“Over the last year, almost all significant communications between [mother and son] regarding the business have been directed through their respective attorneys,” the suit says.
“The parties have worked together for more than 40 years, and each has owned one half of each of the properties since before [Kenneth] was married in 1990,” according to the papers.
Kenneth also accuses his mom of stealing his personal tax returns, bouncing a $5 million business check and refusing to allow him to resign from the company.
He is asking a judge to liquidate the family’s real-estate holdings — mostly walk-up rental buildings in lower Manhattan.
Mother and son are no strangers to strife. They’re embroiled in a Housing Court case with rent-regulated tenants of their 115-year-old building at 25 Thompson St.
Kenneth declined to talk about the lawsuit — because, he says, a reporter misquoted him in 1977.
Bernice answered the phone at the family’s Waverly Place office and at first pretended to be a receptionist, but eventually identified herself.
“I don’t give any information,” she said about the suit.