New York - In a suit filed on Tuesday, Touro College charges
that the tenant’s association of an upper West Side building, which also houses
students, set a “discriminatory and anti-Semitic tone” in rejecting a request
by the college to make one of the building’s two elevators Shabbat-friendly.
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Reports that since students from
Touro occupy 43 of the building’s 82 units, Touro officials had petitioned the
tenant’s association to program one of the elevators to stop at every floor
during Shabbat.
Residents of the building complained that modifying one of
the elevators would cause inconvenience on the day they typically do laundry,
shopping, and other errands.
In the suit filed Tuesday, Touro asked a Manhattan Supreme
Court to overturn the decision by the Division of Housing and Community Renewal
rejecting their application.
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