McNally’s son booted from West Village pad

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After years of legal flip-flops over a rent-stabilized West Village apartment, restaurateur Keith McNally finally has to hand over his keys. When McNally had tried to hand over control of the apartment, where he had lived since 1993, to his son in 2002, landlord Thompson Realty took the downtown foodie to court, claiming that he had no legal right to retain the apartment in the transfer. But while an appellate court ruled in 2008 that the son could stay because he, reportedly, used the home as his primary residence after his parents’ 1994 divorce, another judge is crying foul. On Tuesday, the 2008 decision was overturned on the grounds that McNally’s son had “failed to meet his burden of proof that his father’s former residence was his primary residence at all relevant times.” Translation: time to pack your bags, son.

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