NEW YORK -- Two pit bulls are terrorizing a luxury lower Manhattan condominium because their owner lets them walk the hallways and sidewalks without leashes or muzzles, according to court papers.
Now, in papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, the Battery Pointe Condominium is seeking to permanently boot the pooches.
The papers say Jason Klabal’s dogs, Ness and Bella, are a hazard to other residents in the Rector Place building. Klabal, 35, has allegedly ignored management’s demands to leash and muzzle his dogs while they are in the building and a subsequent order to remove the pets permanently.
Leslie Lipton, a condo board member, said Ness attacked another resident’s Yorkie and nearly “bit (the dog) in half.”
She added that Klabal compounded his problems by using an “incompetent” dog walker. Klabal, who works in real estate, was walking his dog Thursday afternoon and declined to comment.
But a friend of Klabal’s insisted that Ness and Bella are “loveable.”
(NY Daily News - July 25, 2013)
