Tenants facing eviction from their homes above Carnegie Hall have gone to court to keep the fat lady from singing.
In papers filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, more than two dozen residents of Carnegie Hall Studio Towers say their landlord is unfairly trying to give them the boot so it can renovate the space for other uses.
They want a court order blocking the Carnegie Hall Corp. from going ahead with proceedings that will cost them their longtime homes.
“This action is brought in the face of a May 21, 2007, pronouncement by defendant Carnegie Hall Corporation that it needs to recover the entirety of the space in the Studio Towers to perform massive renovations to convert such space for its own use,” says the suit.
The tenants’ court papers say there’s no reason they have to be evicted now.
They noted that the landlord has admitted the “renovation work cannot start until at least 2009 and such work is fully dependent on a massive fund-raising drive . . . and on approval of the New York Department of Buildings.”
Carnegie Hall representatives could not be reached last night.