The MTA has filed a lawsuit in Manhattan seeking to displace two businesses at a ritzy Upper East Side co-op building for c⛄onstruction of the Second Avenue subway.
“It’s been a nightmare. They’ve been clo💞bbered,” said Kirk Tzanides, an attorney for MacArthur Properties which own൲s six commercial spaces at 301 E. 69th St.
Tzanides🧜 is trying꧋ to negotiate with the MTA ahead of a Feb. 8 hearing on the issue.
🦹The transit agency wants to evict Crest Cleaners and the building’s parking garage through eminent domain to work 🤪on the 72nd station entrance for several weeks, the MTA suit says.
The MTA also wan☂ts access to the co-oᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚp’s basement and two vacant storefronts.
ꦬAllan Hyman, an attorney f𓄧or the parking garage, said the new plans will shutter Alliance Parking Services business.
An MTA spokesman said the easement will be only temporary, and owners wil🍌l be compensated. He wouldꦡ not disclose dollar amounts.
The suit says the seizures will last n♎o more than two years.
David Kim, owner of Crest Cleaners, sai🔯d he is worried about the🔥 displacement.
“It’s a big problem,” he said. “Even temporarily they vacate me, I have a responsibility for paying rent ꦑand everything.”