“Take It Down,” Neighbor Tells Curry

By Brian 

Page Six titles this one “Raising The Roof:” “The war is escalating between ‘Today’ show news anchor Ann Curry and her neighbors over construction on her West 71st Street brownstone. In August, we reported that Curry’s neighbor, Lynne Lummel, went to court to halt ‘unsafe and harmful demolition and construction practices’ on a massive addition to the pad. The Landmarks Preservation Commission issued another stop-work order this week, we’re told, after a Sept. 30 inspection found the new rooftop on Curry’s townhouse is too high and is visible from a public thoroughfare, a major violation in historic neighborhoods. Lummel had put up a sign on her own roof pointing to Curry’s place reading, ‘Take It Down.'” Lummel says she’s “extremely upset at being misled time and time again…”

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