A Manhattan couple’s dream of building an indoor lap pool beneath their $30 million Upper East Side townhouse has turned into a legal fight with their next-door neighbors—complete with allegations of health risks, structural concerns, and months of disruptive drilling.
This story first made headlines in the New York Post, and while it reads like a splashy tabloid piece, there are real challenges here that anyone in the trades will recognize.
The homeowners—hedge funder Zachary Kurz and his wife Brittany Morgan, an heiress to a real estate fortune—combined two townhouses on East 77th Street to create a massive single residence. Their plans include installing an indoor pool in the cellar, which would require excavating deep into Manhattan bedrock and underpinning the foundation…