Penthouse pilfer
This won’t quiet the NIMBY cries on Billionaires Row.
A thief early Tuesday used the roof of a future men’s shelter to break into a neighboring penthouse — which he ransacked while the owner and his pregnant wife were sleeping, cops and building workers said.
The prowler scaled a barbed wirelined fence atop the former Park Savoy Hotel — the site of a controversial planned shelter — and crept into the apartment through an unlocked terrace door at about 1 a.m., a worker said.
Without waking David Fallarino or his eight-months-pregnant wife, the crook swiped an iPad, a briefcase and a pair of sneakers, collectively valued at about $2,000, cops said.
The couple was roused only when the intruder slammed the apartment door shut while fleeing down to the building’s lobby and onto West 58th Street near Seventh Avenue, said the worker, who declined to give his name.
Fallarino, a 38-year-old Citizens Bank loan officer, awoke to find the terrace door ajar and a crowbar nearby, cops said.
The couple’s wine cabinet had also been flung open, a bottle lying on the floor, authorities added.
Fallarino declined to speak about the break-in beyond telling The Post that the incident left his expecting wife “bugging out.” “She’s scared right now,” he said. Fallarino has ties to Paul Manafort, President Trump’s formerer campaign manager who was convicted last week on a slew of financial crimes thatat include making false claimsms on a $3.4 million loan applica-ation through Citizens.
Two of Fallarino’s assis-stants testified at the trial thatat Fallarino and Manafort ex-exchanged e-mails about thehe lending process, The Wash-shington Post reported.
Fallarino did not take thethe stand, and has not been chargedarged with a crime.
The thief remains at large,e, and cops are searching area surveil-rveillance cameras for footage ofof the suspect.
Both investigators and work-workers overhauling the Park Savoy site believe the thief broke in on the ground floor of the building, got onto the roof, then hopped the fence to Fallarino’s building.
The city in January unveiled plans to convert the Park Savoy into a 140bed men’s homeless shelter, setting off a wave of protests from concerned locals in one of Manhattan’s most well-heeled pockets.
The West 58th Street Coalition residents group is suing the city to block the shelter.