Luxury Condo Owner Sues Because There's No Wine Cooler

HUDSON SQUARE, NY — This luxury condo owner wants their wine chilled — and the wine-loving owner is willing to go to court for it.

The owner of a $3.6 million condo at the edge of SoHo and Hudson Square is suing the property owner for broken promises to install an "integrated wine cooler" in the kitchen for the 12th floor digs, a lawsuit filed Wednesday claims.

The offer for the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom apartment promised "Miele or subzero wine coolers" would be "integrated into the kitchens" of the upper floor apartments at 565 Broome St., the lawsuit says.

But court papers say the owner's unit was "defectively designed and constructed" so that it could not "accommodate" the wine cooler.

"Now, the kitchens have to be redesigned and renovated in order to change the kitchen to one that has sufficient cabinetry and all of the high-end appliances that were promised including the integrated wine cooler," the lawsuit says.

"This devalues the kitchen and the apartment; particularly to wine enthusiasts," according to the lawsuit, first reported by The Real Deal.

A spokesperson for 565 Broome SoHo called the lawsuit "completely without merit."

"This lawsuit, which is being filed by one person over not having a $2,200 wine cooler, is frivolous and completely without merit," the spokesperson said in a statement.

"The sponsor has provided multiple options to adequately address this. We look forward to vigorously responding to this issue in court," the rep added.

The owner, "VB Soho LLC," filed it as a class action lawsuit for any other multi-million dollar condo owners vying to get in on the wine suit.

It is unclear who exactly owns the condo. Someone named Ayal Martin Hayes was the authorized signer when it was purchased for $3.6 million in April, property records show.

When reached by phone, a lawyer for the condo owner, Joseph Colbert, declined comment, saying the complaint "speaks for itself."

The building at Broome and Varick streets has drawn the likes of the co-founder of Uber Travis Kalanick and tennis star Novak Djokovic. Per New York YIMBY, it is the tallest residential building in the neighborhood, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with 115 units.