It looks like the top of the street for a Midtown workplace tower owned by an actual property energy trio.
The buildings at 500 and 512 Seventh Avenue, the place the lender accused the borrower of intentional self-dealing, might be despatched to a foreclosures public sale to fulfill a $356 million debt, a New York Supreme Court docket choose has ordered.
The property was owned by a partnership made up of brothers Joseph and Meyer Chetrit, Joseph Moinian and Edward Minskoff, with The Chetrit Group sustaining its places of work in No. 512. The borrower agreed to not oppose the movement for foreclosures, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
The judgment of foreclosures is a loss for the buyers. It additionally underscores the obvious troubled waters that the Chetrits are going through, as they face personal judgments and plead poverty in court.
The borrower, formally known as 500-512 Seventh Avenue Restricted Partnership, acquired the leasehold for the property for $140 million in 1999. It took out $375 million in opposition to the buildings in 2018. The lender filed a foreclosure suit in July 2025.
In a sworn deposition taken this spring, Meyer Chetrit acknowledged the problems on the Seventh Avenue property. An lawyer requested him how far alongside the corporate was within the foreclosures course of.
“Far-off, about to present the keys,” he mentioned. “About to lose it already.”
Chetrit Group had a 56 p.c stake within the constructing, Meyer mentioned within the deposition, including that it had by no means paid the $42,000 hire on its places of work there within the “4 or 5” years it had occupied the area.
In line with the lender, which took difficulty with Chetrit Group’s failure to pay, the event agency racked up greater than $1 million in again hire.
“[T]his failure by Borrower is proof of self-dealing or, at a minimal, extreme negligence and mismanagement by Borrower in its capability as sublessor in reference to the Mortgaged Property when taking into consideration that Guarantor Chetrit is an insider of Borrower,” an lawyer for the lender wrote to the courtroom.
The lender had beforehand accused the borrower of self-dealing on the property, transferring $1 million in tenant safety deposits to exterior funds, together with $300,000 to these for different Chetrit Group tasks or associates. The borrower moreover had not been making month-to-month funds.
The constructing at 512 Seventh Avenue is a 45-story tower with 544,300 rentable sq. ft, whereas the five hundred property is an 18-story constructing with 676,500 rentable sq. ft. 228 West thirty eighth Avenue, additionally included on the mortgage, is a five-story industrial constructing with 10,000 rentable sq. ft.
Representatives for the Chetrits, Moinian and Minskoff didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Monday.
Information of the foreclosures comes amidst different revelations concerning the Chetrit Group’s funds. Though the corporate nonetheless owns a lot of its New York actual property empire, Meyer and Joseph are going through greater than $163 million in private judgments.
The corporate has continued doing enterprise, together with inking refinancing offers. However within the spring deposition, Meyer told a tale of woe, testifying that the Chetrit Group was “dissolving” from lack of cash, workers and attorneys had not been paid, and that he was borrowing cash from household and associates in an effort to get by and pay for private bills.
When requested who’s supporting him financially, Meyer Chetrit answered, “No one.”
“God,” he added.
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