New York Post

‘Fighters’ attack the Boîte

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IVAN Busheski — the nightlife guru behind Soho’s infamous lockdown-defying party penthouse — has now brought his vivid brand of party drama to the Lower East Side.

Busheski and four others were charged with multiple offenses on New Year’s Eve when the city sheriff shut down an “illegal bottle club” at their 177 Prince St. loft — only to have robbers storm the place with a gun and knife later that month.

Now he claims he was attacked by a group of “Brazilian jiujitsu fighters” bent on “[breaking] all my bones, [and taking] my eyeballs” while he was finishing his shift at Omar’s La Boîte, where he’s also a manager, early Friday.

“I see like three undercover cops and [State Liquor Authority agents] ready to shut me down. And then all of a sudden, like five guys started running toward the door as the cops did nothing,” Busheski, who was standing inside the closed door of the hot spot at the time of the alleged attack, told Page Six. “If I would’ve gone outside, they were going to break all my bones, take my eyeballs out while the police did nothing.”

Busheski claims the gang threw a brick into the glass door as they ran toward him.

“They tried to get over me to get inside. They were tall and in formation like a Navy SEAL.”

The NYPD told us that “police observed a male throw a brick at [La Boîte’s] window, breaking it, and gave chase” and that they took a man into custody. They said he was issued a summons for disorderly conduct.

The cops also said that “police, along with agents of the New York State Liquor Authority observed more than 50 individual­s inside of the location, many not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.”

After the armed robbery and Friday’s incident, Busheski says he is starting to believe that the attacks are a conspiracy to shut him down.

SLA reps did not comment.

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