Only In New York: A Condo Board Sues Subway Sandwiches For Having Annoyingly Fresh-Baked Bread UES board files a $500K lawsuit against a Subway franchise for polluting the neighborhood with the “nauseating” smell of fresh bread.
A condominium board on the Upper East Side is asking a judge to stop a newly opened Subway restaurant from baking fresh bread, claiming the building is being “inundated with strong and nauseating food odors,” causing property values to plummet.The owner of the franchise, Tae Hyun Shin, 47, said yesterday that he has tried to accommodate his neighbors, offering to reimburse them to dry-clean clothes they say smell as well as installing a $3,500 ventilation system that he says pushes the baking fragrance onto Second Avenue.
The campaign is being spearheaded by a couple who live on the third floor. They allege in a lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court that the lobby, basement, and stairs of the Waterford Condominium at 300 E. 93rd St. suddenly began smelling almost two weeks ago, after the restaurant opened. Continued…
Source: NYSun by way of Condo Blog
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Seriously, I have horses across the road from me. Trade ya!
They have got to be kidding. I would start an investigation of the HOA. They have probably misappropriated funds and are scared to death.
One of my fondest memories of NY was the bread factory in Long Island City, just polluted the whole area with one of the best smells on earth, next to freshly mown grass and freshly ground coffee beans of course.
Only in New York!
Thanks for the comments. Your right Laurie...ONLY IN NY. I would guess that the Subway owner gets off clean.
I think I have heard it all! Or maybe not...could it be that maybe there are a few people in the building doing the Atkins diet and the smell of fresh bread is almost a Chinese torture?
Hi Blanca
Haha your right they must be on Atkins...it is just so re-donk-u-las!!!