Well-heeled residents of New York’s “first luxury spa condominium” are fuming after finding out one of their neighbors got a nearly $500,000 payment from the building to revamp her massive, multi-million dollar apartment, The Post has learned.
The condo board funneled the roughly half-million dollars from the Upper East Side building’s common fund to repair Gina Abandonato Switzer’s 4,300-square-foot apartment after she reported it had suffered water damage, court documents state.
“Lots of Unit owners are very upset about you and Lou paid to your workers $492,000 and want to see a proof [sic],” one neighbor texted Switzer, who is married to Lou Switzer, CEO of interior architecture firm the Switzer Group.
“No one would get away with getting $492,000 and not having photos of damage,” the

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