The Chutzpah Award of the Year!!!
Someone was squatting illegally in a New York City building. That is nothing to get really that worked up over. If you have ever been to the Big Apple, squatting in abandoned buildings is a way of life.
But this squatter wasn't homeless. And the building wasn't vacant.
A New York-based lawyer ended up working out of an Empire State Building office for more than seven months rent free earlier this year, according to the New York Times. Daniel K. Pearlman had been subleasing space from a mortgage broker on the 40th floor of this iconic building for several years. When that tenant bailed because of debt, many of the other subleasers were kicked out as well. Pearlman, though, never got an green eviction notice so he kept arriving every day. He figured he wouldn't leave until he was told. It took seven months.
That takes some guts. Historically, the Empire State Building doesn't look well on people messing around. They hired planes to shoot down King Kong, and he was just hanging around on the outside. Pearlman's fate was not as severe.
Building management claims they knew about Pearlman and deactivated his security card. He says he got a new one. Management slowly removed office furniture. Pearlman said it didn't bother him because they still delivered the mail. They say they didn't evict him because they were tied up with other matters. When those ended, he was booted
Pearlman has chutzpah. Though, he is paying for office space somewhere else now.
But this squatter wasn't homeless. And the building wasn't vacant.
A New York-based lawyer ended up working out of an Empire State Building office for more than seven months rent free earlier this year, according to the New York Times. Daniel K. Pearlman had been subleasing space from a mortgage broker on the 40th floor of this iconic building for several years. When that tenant bailed because of debt, many of the other subleasers were kicked out as well. Pearlman, though, never got an green eviction notice so he kept arriving every day. He figured he wouldn't leave until he was told. It took seven months.
That takes some guts. Historically, the Empire State Building doesn't look well on people messing around. They hired planes to shoot down King Kong, and he was just hanging around on the outside. Pearlman's fate was not as severe.
Building management claims they knew about Pearlman and deactivated his security card. He says he got a new one. Management slowly removed office furniture. Pearlman said it didn't bother him because they still delivered the mail. They say they didn't evict him because they were tied up with other matters. When those ended, he was booted
Pearlman has chutzpah. Though, he is paying for office space somewhere else now.
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