Neighbors at a Chelsea constructing say they've been disturbed by extraordinarily loud noise from tenants Andrew Brokman and Joseph Cignarale.
Helayne Seidman for NY Publish
A pair of alleged squatters have soured life for neighbors in a Chelsea constructing with “very loud” intercourse and wall-shaking arguments, a lawsuit alleges.
Longtime metropolis worker Andrew Brokman, 32, and Joseph Cignarale, 28, have introduced “rampant drug use, preventing, screaming, and general nuisance” to 216 Seventh Ave., the place they’ve did not pay any hire for greater than a 12 months, authorized papers declare.
Cignarale started legally subletting the one-bedroom pad in September 2020, after the tenant of report, David Marshall, misplaced his job as a yoga teacher and decamped down South in the course of the metropolis’s pandemic lockdowns, Marshall instructed The Publish.
Brokman rapidly moved in, and by Halloween 2020, bother began, when “noxious smoke” began pouring from the pair’s third ground residence, court docket information present.
Residents have since complained about “preventing, yelling, partitions shaking” and “very loud sounds of sexual activity” coming from the unit, based on Manhattan Housing Court docket papers.
One neighbor was so pissed off by the music booming from the pad in April, she was “dropped at tears” when reporting it to 311, Marshall claims in court docket papers.
The pair have left rubbish in frequent areas, threatened the constructing superintendent, and conflicts between the 2 have compelled neighbors to name the NYPD 13 instances, based on the litigation. Cignarale was arrested for assault in December 2020, the NYPD mentioned, although the result of the case is unclear.
A distraught Marshall needs to spare his neighbors from the drama.
“I used to be scrambling. I wanted to discover a tenant. I felt determined. I didn’t run background checks on them, I didn’t do my due diligence,” he mentioned. “I really feel accountable. I wish to clear this mess up.”
Brokman vehemently denied the allegations, insisting he by no means lived within the residence.
“That is all defamatory and can all get thrown out with reference to me,” mentioned Brokman, who claimed he and Cignarale had been simply pals.
Brokman’s most up-to-date Huge Apple authorities gig was with the Division of Data Know-how and Telecommunications, the place he earned $67,000 a 12 months as a enterprise promotion coordinator. The division mentioned he’s not employed there.
Cignarale mentioned Marshall overcharged him on hire, calling the accusations “exaggerated,” although he admits “there have been instances I had a visitor, and there was preventing. It might have been any Grindr hookup.”
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