Goldberg failed to pay off the balance of the debt by its August due date, which allows Blackstone to foreclose on the retail spaces at the flatiron-shaped prewar property, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan state Supreme Court. The upstairs residences at the building, at Cornelia and West Fourth streets, are not involved in the suit.
Critics said it made the block seedy; others opposed what they called garish signage, according to news reports. A Manhattan judge ruled that the statute of limitations was way too far gone for Mizrahi to make such a claim. After Jackson sapped up No.
There was retail turnover in the multiberth address in the following years, as some tattoo shops closed. But high-end tenants never did arrive, and two years later Chehebar flipped the site to Goldberg.
Crazy Fantasy ended up morphing into a similarly-focused business, Fantasy Parties, owned by a Staten Island mother of five, Tsipi Yeruham, public records show, who had her own challenges. In twin brothers and developers Roger and Robert Fisher purchased the building and converted its upper stories into about 40 residential condo units, which use the address 2 Cornelia St.
The Fishers kept the stores for years before selling them to Mizrahi, records show.
