COUPLE DRIVEN BUGGY

10G-apt. infest suit

A couple in a ritzy lower Manhattan building say their apartment has a nasty “bug infestation” — which has cost them more than $70,000 worth of artwork and designer furniture, according to a new lawsuit.

Leonard and Darrell Morse claim the insects infested their $10,000-a-month New York by Gehry pad — and fumigators then chipped their masterpieces while trying to tackle the problem, according to the complaint filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The couple first noticed the unwelcome drugstore beetles in 2017.

“A nightmare started over two years ago,” Leonard, a dentist, said Sunday. “The building [management] stonewalled us.”

He and his wife were on vacation in 2018 when they claim a work crew entered their 75th-floor Spruce Street apartment without permission to spray, ripping out wooden window sills in the process.

“The crew negligently carelessly and recklessly moved around plaintiff ’s furniture and damaged several pieces of valuable artwork,” the complaint alleges.

The Morses accuse the workers of breaking two glass pieces by Peter Aldridge worth $25,000 and one by Martin Rosol. Their “Lady Sculpture” also suffered a fractured leg.

The couple also claims their furniture was exposed to “dangerous chemicals” because the crew didn’t use protective coverings.

Leonard said their twobedroom apartment is still crawling with the beetles.

The Morses are suing building owner FC 8 Spruce Street Residential LLC and managing company First Service Residential New York for unspecified damages.

The Morses claim the building owner and management both “candidly admitted that [they] were ‘100% responsible’ ” but have since backtracked, saying “they had no knowledge as to the actual cause of the damage.”

First Service didn’t return a message. Andrew Brent, a spokesman for FC 8 Spruce, said only, “We take the matter seriously.”