Dick Handler Sues Neighbors

[jimmy olsen]

Wow! This guys mother must have been a Bond girl or something, what the hell?

Languish, don't disappoint me now!
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/28/highest-paid-banker-on-wall-street-suing-renovators-of-neighbouring-building-for-ruining-view-from-his-360-degree-glass-penthouse/

As the highest-paid banker on Wall Street, Dick Handler feels he has earned a $24-million glass penthouse from which to enjoy uninterrupted 360-degree panoramas of the city he conquered.

So it is unacceptable, he alleged in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan this week, that fashionable upstarts from London are preparing to spoil his view.

Mr Handler, 51, "will suffer real and irreparable harm" if Spring Studios, a Camden-based design firm, installs a lift on the roof of a neighbouring building, he claimed in his complaint.

The Jeffries Group chief executive, who received a $58-million pay package last year, said the lift would "impair the views" from his home and leave him suffering "significant noise and light impingements".

He is suing the owners of 50 Varick Street, who recruited Spring Studios to convert the building into a studio space, restaurant and entertainment venue, as well as the New York City authorities.

He alleges that the owners plan to start holding events for more than 3,000 people ending as late as 4am on week nights, "with rooftop dining and liquor service until 2am."

After similar concerns were raised by a local community group, Spring Studios said it had adjusted plans to limit the number of events held on the roof and ensure that they finish earlier.

However Mr. Handler, whose three-bedroom apartment sits atop 1 York Street, claims that as well as causing him anguish, the renovations do not comply with the TriBeCa neighbourhood's planning laws. The dispute has tarnished a run of good fortune for Mr. Handler, who received a 36% rise last year after the share price of Jeffries, once a boutique investment bank, rose by 48%.

His two-storey penthouse runs to 6,500 square feet, with another 1,500 of outdoor roof terrace intended for large dinner parties. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and two powder rooms.

The master bedroom suite has "custom millwork cabinetry with acid-etched doors and mirror backing," a shower crafted from "Calcutta gold marble" and a sauna with cedar benches.

If guests grow tired of the apartment's miniature cinema, with a 100-inch projector screen, they can slip into the building's swimming pool or work out in its gymnasium.

Mr. Handler and his wife, Martha, can also make use of luxurious features such as plasma televisions that swing out from bathroom walls and a wardrobe so big that it contains a sofa from which to deliberate.

The Handlers also own two lakeside houses in the affluent hamlet of South Salem in upstate New York, from which Mr. Handler hails.

Spring Studios, which is not subject to the lawsuit, referred inquiries to the named defendants. Calls to 50 Varick LLC were not answered and messages could not be left. The New York City buildings department did not return a request for comment.

The Daily Telegraph

[Syt]

Dick Handler? 

[Syt]

Seriously, he sounds like a wanker.

[Eddie Teach]

Gay porn star?

[garbon]

Gay porn star?

Sounds gay for pay.

[Josquius]

Terrible name. Wonder if he's a Richard or a real dick.

Hope this gets thrown out. Sadly he is rich:(

[Viking]

One would have thought that his wife was the dick handler.

[CountDeMoney]

Gay porn star?

Sounds gay for pay.

katmai's not a Key Grip for nothing, you know.  Firm, yet pliant.

[DontSayBanana]

Doubt it'll fly, but I'm not sure how the UK views such things- I know a bunch of similar attempts were made by casino-builders to hamper each other's construction or get rid of nuisance locals in Atlantic City, and they pretty much all failed.

[garbon]

Place sounds like it'd be nice with that rooftop seating. I could walk down there.

Also, if I were him, I'd be more upset that I lived near Canal Street / the exit of the Holland Tunnel.

[garbon]

Gay porn star?

Sounds gay for pay.

katmai's not a Key Grip for nothing, you know.  Firm, yet pliant.

Is that an admission?

[grumbler]

Also, if I were him, I'd be more upset that I lived near Canal Street / the exit of the Holland Tunnel.

If I were him, I'd be more upset that Moody's publicly warned Jefferies Group that Holder's pay package was too large (at $19 million, not $58 million), and that The Telegraph doesn't know how to spell (yeah, I know, it is a British newspaper and so not a real newspaper, but still....).

Oh, and, of course, by the fact that he sounds like a jerk.

[DGuller]

Place sounds like it'd be nice with that rooftop seating. I could walk down there.

Also, if I were him, I'd be more upset that I lived near Canal Street / the exit of the Holland Tunnel.

I live near the exit of Holland Tunnel. 

[katmai]

Gay porn star?

Sounds gay for pay.

katmai's not a Key Grip for nothing, you know.  Firm, yet pliant.

I'm not a key grip or a best boy.

[Ideologue]

I highly doubt they'd let you be in charge of craft services.