Shlomo Hagler
A Manhattan judge was slapped with a $25 million lawsuit for
his role in the potential sale of lucrative property adjoining a landmark
institution once run by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Fellow board members of the Bialystoker Synagogue are suing
their president, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shlomo Hagler, over a dispute
involving an L-shaped lot at Delancey Street and Bialystoker Place and that’s
been owned by the orthodox congregation since 1987.
In the suit, Baruch Singer and Lenny Greher claim that
Hagler, the synagogue’s rabbi, Zvi Romm, and the chairman of its housing fund
are barred from selling the property at 15-17 Bialystoker Place based on an
April 2012 ruling by a Brooklyn rabbinical court.
A source close to the litigation told The Post the suit
comes after the synagogue sold off a 127-unit affordable-housing building it
owns on an adjacent lot for $28 million in January.
The orthodox congregation, housed in a 1826 fieldstone
building that’s on the National Register of Historic Places, is primarily made
up of Polish immigrants. It’s rumored that the building was a stop on the
Underground Railroad.
Hagler took over as president when Sheldon resigned in 2010
following a rift in the congregation over women joining the leadership ranks.
Hagler declined to comment. The other defendants did not
return calls for comment.
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