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Troubles continue at Tessler’s Toy Building

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The stalled condo conversion project at 16-story 1107 Broadway is still vacant, save for a bank branch on the ground floor. The former northern Toy Building, purchased for $235 million by developer Yitzchak Tessler in 2007, is now considered a “troubled asset” by real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics, and industry insiders told the Post that the project is unlikely to emerge from its current state any time soon. It’s possible, they said, that Joseph Chetrit, who owned the building before Tessler, may have retained some sway after the deal, and the building’s $343 million in debt to Lehman Brothers Holdings is up in the air. “The debt was carved up in a confusing way where no one knows what will happen, and there’s a lot of finger-pointing going on,” one source said. [Post]

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