It appears the construction and congestion around Grand Central Terminal is causing problems for the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.
With the usual crowds coming in and out of Grand Central, and the additional mess of the newest Midtown supertall skyscraper, One Vanderbilt, under construction in a high traffic area, homeless have gathered, and it's hurting Michael Jordan's steak house's profits, apparently.
Located at Grand Central Terminal, The Steakhouse NYC owners have filed suit against the building's landlord, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, claiming a 24% drop in revenue and calls for unspecified damages.
However, it gets more complicated.
As part of the area's rezoning that paved the way for One Vanderbilt, the company was required to pay about $210 million for repairs to the MTA's infrastructure at the base of the soon-to-be monolithic edifice.
So, let's get this straight: the area was rezoned to make room for a giant skyscraper, reaching around 1,500 feet above street level and will house over a million square feet of space.
To ensure the building doesn't interfere with the subway, developers dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure.
But now, one of the MTA's tenants at Grand Central has supposedly seen nearly a quarter of its profits go out the door due to the homeless congregating in the mess of the One Vanderbilt going up.
And the tenant restaurant owners are suing MTA.
Make sense? The suit isn't really the important part of this story. The important part of the story is that it's about to be winter and there are entirely too many homeless people on the streets of NYC. Let's do what we can to fix that. Stay classy, MJ.
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[via The Real Deal]