‘RUFF’-HOUSING: Neighbors of Harvey Weinstein and wife Georgina Chapman (above) have hit the roof. (mavrixphoto.com)
Harvey Weinstein
Doggone it, Harvey!
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s yapping pooches are making every day a dog day afternoon for his Greenwich Village neighbors, who blasted the Hollywood bigwig as an inconsiderate hound.
“He doesn’t give a damn — that’s his attitude,” charged West 12th Street resident Richard Falcone.
For years, Weinstein has allowed his two best friends, Rocky and Myrtle, to bark to their hearts’ content in the back yard of his tony Bank Street town house, causing a bad case of distemper for his neighbors, critics told The Post.
The barking begins at about 8 a.m. and can span hours at a clip, said dog-tired residents.
They’ve begged the city to take action, complaining to the Department of Environmental Protection, the agency charged with responding to noise complaints, which can carry a fine of up to $175.
One neighbor even went so far as to buy an ultrasonic bark-control device — which didn’t work, a source said.
Others have posted handmade signs on trees, urging peace and quiet.
But nothing has silenced Weinstein’s dogs.
“Only bad press could stop Harvey Weinstein from ignoring the grief he is causing his neighbors,” wrote a neighbor in a letter to the editor to WestView News, a monthly publication. “311 calls and all other so-called legal means have failed to get him to control his constantly yapping dogs.”
Weinstein’s pedigreed block is home to the likes of Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who has defended Weinstein.
“Graydon Carter told me that Harvey Weinstein is a very good neighbor,” said Mimi Sheraton, the prominent food critic and Falcone’s wife. “Well, he may be a good neighbor on Bank Street, but his name is mud on West 12th Street.”
Sheraton described one of the dogs’ barking as “very loud and cutting.” And the other one is no better. “The little one has a knife-sharp, piercing, needling bark,” she said.
She continued: “It’s just a lack of consideration. Instead of taking the dogs out and walking them they just let them out in the yard.”
But sources close to the movie mogul say critics are barking up the wrong tree.
“[Sheraton] called the Weinstein Company offices ranting and raving the other day that the dogs were barking in the garden,” said a source.
“But when the housekeeper at Harvey’s home was called to take them inside, she said the dogs weren’t even there — they were in Connecticut.”
Ashley Gerczak, who oversees Weinstein’s home and tends to the pooches, said the dogs are never al fresco for long periods of time.
“[Weinstein] has the utmost respect for his neighbors and would never inconvenience them,” she said. “There’s no basis for these complaints.”
Weinstein plopped down $14.9 million on the five-story, eight-bedroom townhouse in 2006.
The following year, the Queens-born movie mogul, 60, married leggy English fashion designer Georgina Chapman, 36, — who brought her Norfolk terrier Rocky into the union. The couple later adopted Myrtle, a mutt, sources said.
Chapman — the daughter of millionaire businessman Brian Chapman — has been described as a “devout dog person” who “regularly invites her dogs to share her bed.”