Suit: HOA President Gets The Snub For Crappy 'Buy' Offer, Then Goes All Out With Jerk-Around To Submarine Estate's $27.5M NYC Co-Op Sale To Someone Else

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• Hell hath no fury like a co-op board president scorned. Upset that the sellers of a sprawling penthouse apartment with eye-popping panoramic views spurned her lowball offer, 1107 Fifth Ave. board president Maureen Klinsky has set out to sabotage their $27.5 million deal with someone else, court papers say.
  
  Klinsky abruptly decided that the full-floor apartment’s prime selling point — a private wraparound terrace with city and Central Park views — can be used by everyone in the building to get onto a newly proposed roof deck.
  
  The estate of Monique Uzielli says that’s not fair and that’s not legal — her lease held that the terrace and the roof were private. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the estate noted that the board’s moves came after it turned down Klinsky’s $21 million offer on the apartment they had on the market for $29.5 million.
  
  “The timing is no mere coincidence. Rather, Klinsky, aided and abetted by other board members . . . is abusing her authority as the president of the board to prevent the sale from closing so she can purchase the penthouse for an amount substantially below market value, or damage the estate for rejecting her offers,” the suit says.
  
  The estate wants $5 million in damages — and a court order declaring that the terrace is private.
  
  While Uzielli’s 4,180-square-foot, 10-room apartment is spectacular, the terrace is the crown jewel — at 4,870 square feet, it’s larger than the interior living space and one of the largest in the city, the suit says.
  
  While the board approved the sale to the unidentified buyer in April, it then tried to revoke their approval unless both the buyer and the estate signed a deal making the roof into “a common area accessible to all residents.”
  
  It’s also refused to hand over documents the estate needs to proceed with the closing, the suit says — leaving the sellers worried the deal will fall apart. A hearing on the balcony brouhaha is scheduled for Oct. 4. Klinsky declined to comment through her doorman.

For more, see Board big sabotaged $27M penthouse sale after snub: suit.

For the lawsuit, see Estate of Uzielli v. 1107 Fifth Avenue Corporation, et al.

Go here for the Memorandum of Law In Support Of Temporary Restraining Order/Preliminary Injunction.

Go here for the entire docket sheet.