Caught in Limeblight

The ghost of Peter Gatien’s notorious Limelight club has come back to haunt its old home — with a war erupting between the site’s new hotspot and angry neighbors who complain that its patrons are partying there like it’s 1989.

Manhattan’s Community Board 5 is going after the Jue Lan Club, a Chinese restaurant that inhabits the deconsecrated church on Sixth Avenue in Chelsea. Board members accuse the eatery of hosting rowdy guests and DJs who rattle the stained-glass windows.

But Naiome Ram, who opened the restaurant in December 2015, claims she is the victim of a “witch hunt.”

She says Jue Lan has been “stigmatized” by its unfair association with Limelight, which decades earlier hosted drug parties and evaded taxes under Gatien, then the city’s nightlife king.

“When we took the place, people said it was cursed because it used to be a church, but Community Board 5 is the real curse,” Ram said. “There’s so much beauty and history in the building, but businesses who’ve taken the space here have failed because CB5 makes it so difficult to succeed.”

Ram claims Jue Lan has also become the target of “blatant racism,” noting it’s popular with NBA players, including Carmelo Anthony and James Harden, and hip-hop stars, including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Nas.

CB5 officials declined to comment.