‘Grasping’ posh NYC faculty director, husband evicted for writing off rent-stabilized Tribeca pad

That’s wealthy.

A “grasping” admissions director on the posh Dalton Faculty and her photographer husband are being evicted from their rent-stabilized pad in Tribeca after writing it off as a enterprise tackle for years, a Manhattan choose dominated.

Judy Calixto, who has labored on the $61,000-a-year Higher East Aspect faculty since 2015, and Michael Goldman, whose portfolio consists of Israeli actress Mira Tzur and designer Norma Kamali, have rented the sprawling three-bedroom house at 177 Hudson Road since 1978.

They’ve been paying peanuts in hire — simply over $2,000 — for greater than 3,000 sq. toes, a complete flooring, within the ritzy neighborhood, the place comparable flats fetch as much as $14,000 a month.

Their landlord, Robert Moskowitz, proprietor of Manhattan Realty Firm 1 LP, turned suspicious round 2016, when Goldman started paying hire with checks that mentioned Michael Goldman Images, Inc. and had the Hudson Road house listed as its location.

He moved to oust the couple and his attorneys ultimately discovered Goldman was writing off his hire and utilities on his firm’s tax returns, prompting a choose to rule late final month the photographer couldn’t additionally declare the house as his major residence.

Town’s hire stabilization regulation requires an house to be the tenant’s major residence, outlined as residing there over half the 12 months. 

And the couple, who married in 1986 and have two grown kids, have one other house within the historic Hudson Valley hamlet of Stone Ridge, the July 26 Manhattan Civil Courtroom ruling acknowledged.

“It ought to offend each taxpayer that such a lucky couple sought to revenue off a rent-stabilized house as an alternative of merely utilizing it as their major house because the regulation required,” mentioned Moskowitz.

“Stabilized hire was not sufficient for them, in order that they helped themselves to improper company tax deductions,” he added.

The courtroom affirmed that hire stabilization legal guidelines are supposed to make residing in New York Metropolis inexpensive for respectable tenants, “to not enrich grasping individuals who abuse the system,” he added.

Calixto’s wage on the faculty is just not listed on-line however these for comparable positions are. Dalton’s director of admissions earned a wage of $257,540, in line with a 2023 submitting. The director of the center faculty acquired $275,662 and its director of athletics earned $337,524.

“We’re relieved that the courtroom enforced the regulation and put an finish to an egregious abuse of our metropolis’s hire stabilization legal guidelines,” Moskowitz’s lawyer, Nicole Waknine informed The Submit.

Goldman’s lawyer, Michael Terk of David Rozenholc & Associates, mentioned a discover of enchantment has been filed and they are going to be making a movement for a keep pending enchantment.

Goldman and Calixto couldn’t be reached for remark. Somebody who answered at their house on Friday declined to talk with The Submit.

Further reporting by Georgia Worrell