Zillionaire defeats zillionaire in 740 Park renovation noise spat
By Will Parker
Judge orders Oaktree Capital head Howard Marks to knock it off.
Even in New York City, all the money in the world can’t buy you peace and quiet.
Hamburg Tang, the 85-year-old disgruntled semiconductor tycoon who sued billionaire neighbor Howard Marks and the 740 Park Avenue co-op board over noisy renovations, has won an order from a New York Supreme Court judge to limit the the amount of time per day Marks can carry out his now years long construction work.
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The Tangs’ attorney, Adam Leitman Bailey, went as far as to suggest that the co-op board showed racial bias towards the Tangs, who are of Chinese descent. “We realized the board is a white man’s billionaire’s club,” he told the New York Post on Monday. “They were not treated with the same respect as others.”
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