Monsey, NY - A preschool for nearly 160 developmentally disabled children could soon be evicted from a former synagogue on Route 306.
An acting state Supreme Court justice ruled that the owners of the Monsey Jewish Center can evict the Hebrew Academy for Special Children. Academy lawyer Mary Marzolla said she has petitioned the Appellate Division to freeze the eviction until the academy's appeal of Justice William Nelson's decision can be heard.
The Monsey Jewish Center moved to evict the academy because it intends to sell the building and needs the money to build a synagogue in Montebello, said Joel Scheinert, the lawyer for the Monsey Jewish Center.
The academy contended that the synagogue breached an agreement to provide three months' notice prior to eviction on June 30, 2006, or later, Marzolla said. The academy claims it was never told that the lease would end on Aug. 31. Nelson dismissed the academy's lawsuit, saying the synagogue acted within the lease.
Supreme Court Justice Howard Miller stayed the eviction until the Appellate Division could consider the issue.
Scheinert, the lawyer for the Monsey Jewish Center, said the academy had a one-year lease and it wasn't going to be renewed because the building was being sold.
Congregation Birchos Yosef plans to buy the property to construct housing. Monsey Jewish Center. "As part of the deal, we have to get the place empty," Scheinert said. "The lawsuit has delayed the sale. The Monsey Jewish Center needs the money for a new building."
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