New York Post

SECRET ‘PARTY’ RENTAL

COVID-risk raves

- By PRISCILLA DeGREGORY and LORENA MONGELLI

It’s their party and they’ll die if they want to.

The tenants of a Tribeca apartment have turned their pad into a crowded, maskfree illicit nightclub complete with bouncers, booze for sale and a $100 cover charge, a new lawsuit alleges.

The owner of the building at 81 Hudson St. — where a 17year-old boy drunkenly fell down a flight of stairs as cops broke up a 123-person party over the weekend — filed a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit Tuesday alleging that occupants Kurt David and Jean Elbaum-David hold weekly bashes with DJs blasting tunes from their secondand third-floor abode.

The rowdy parties have driven neighbors nuts for weeks, prompting the recent raids by law enforcemen­t.

The events normally have “hundreds of unmasked guests with a DJ playing music at obscenely loud levels, all while alcohol is illegally sold to the guests,” the suit charges.

“The defendants have essentiall­y transferre­d the subject apartment into a nightclub, hosting illegal parties which are most definitely potential COVID-19 super spreaders,” the suit charges.

The duo, who signed a lease in January 2020, began holding the parties over the past few months and are expected to move out by the end of March, the court papers claim.

Authoritie­s first raided the party palace on Feb. 26 and then again on Friday, where they found underage drinking, pot smoking and partygoers without masks, New York City Sheriff Joseph Fucito said at the time.

David, 30, of Roslyn, LI, was busted for allegedly selling booze to a minor and violating pandemic emergency restrictio­ns against large gatherings. He was also civilly charged by the city for failure to protect health and safety. A bartender, two DJs and a party employee also were arrested.

Meanwhile, residents of the building have sent messages to the landlord describing the gatherings, the suit says. One e-mail detailed festivitie­s until 7:30 a.m. and a fight between two guests who were “punching each other in the face while carrying knives,” the court papers claim.

Building owner Eisdorfer 60 LLC wants a judge to put an end to the parties and to allow the landlord and the Department of Buildings access into the building.

The suit is also seeking over $10,000 in damages.

Reached by The Post, David declined to comment on the lawsuit. Elbaum-David did not immediatel­y return messages seeking comment.

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