Manhattan needs another Tory Burch shop, the fashion designer says.
Burch has been in a Soho slugfest since September with a neighbor who has been foiling her efforts to build a flagship store at 151 Mercer St.
She’s asking a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to let her workers install vibration-monitoring equipment, waterproofing, a sidewalk shed and other protections on Herbert Moskowitz’s property at 153 Mercer St. over his objections.
It would be awful for everyone if the store isn’t built, claims Burch.
“The public would also be harmed — if [Burch] cannot develop 151 Mercer. It will remain undeveloped and an eyesore, driving neighboring property values down,” her suit says.
But Moskowitz claimed in a $500,000 lawsuit he filed against her last year that her construction caused “extensive damage” to his 130-year-old luxury rental building. He hasn’t seen Burch’s filing, said his lawyer, Carl Peluso.