Imagine this — Yoko Ono’s former West Village penthouse is an $8.3 million wreck, with warped beams, toxic mold and a rotted roof deck.
Ono sold the fourth-floor pad at 49-51 Downing St. to developer David Blumenfeld in 2014. She’d purchased the penthouse — part of a converted 19th century horse stable — in 1995 for her son Sean Lennon who lived in it for just a few years.
Now Blumenfeld is suing the co-op board for refusing to make “structural repairs’ that have allegedly made the unit “dangerous” even though his adult son lives there.
Blumenfeld says in court papers that the 10-unit co-op doesn’t want to do $1 million in renovations because the repairs would be “a major disturbance to other tenants.”
He believes the problems stem from a shoddy conversion job including the use of undersized beams that have caused “chronic and significant leaks and mold” making the unit “dangerous, hazardous or detrimental to the life” of the occupants, the suit says.
He wants the board to fix the problems or give him the money to do the repairs. Blumenfeld already had so spend $15,000 of his own funds to fix the elevator after his son was trapped in it last year.
Blumenthal has previously tangled with his neighbors in court. In 2016 he lost a case against the building claiming that the apartment was “uninhabitable” after a judge determined he’d been letting a half-dozen models and club promoters stay in the unit.
Ono settled a lawsuit she filed against the board in 2014 after claiming members had thwarted her attempts to sell the penthouse.
Attorneys for the board did not immediately return messages for comment.