{"id":1411,"date":"2006-08-14T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/gentrification_your_face_is_a_hare_krishna_bb.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:40:38","slug":"gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/gentrification.html","title":{"rendered":"Gentrification, Your Face Is . . . A Hare Krishna B&B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody — everybody<\/em> — has some sort of hustle going on in this town<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A faction of Hare Krishna — the kooky cult whose members are supposed to promote goodwill and forgiveness — is in the middle of a civil war following a string of lawsuits and a fistfight in its East Village temple in recent months, court papers show.<\/p>\n

The New York chapter of the Interfaith League of Devotees — whose bizarre and shady practices were first exposed by The Post in March of last year — is being sued by its nationwide leader for putting the sect’s nonprofit status in jeopardy by renting rooms at the temple building to tourists.<\/p>\n

The temple’s bed and breakfast takes in more than $300,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Joe Bonomo, a k a His Holiness Krsna Balarama Swami, filed the suit against the group’s treasurer, Susan Bauer, a k a Eternal Love, in Manhattan Supreme Court last month.<\/p>\n

Submitted as evidence is a Post investigative article that details a reporter’s weeklong stay at the devotee digs and that uncovers the cult’s method of getting cash from unsuspecting guests and pushing them toward Krishna.<\/p>\n

The bed-and-breakfast, which remains in operation, makes an estimated $360,000 a year tax-free, according to Bonomo’s attorney, Krishnan Chittur.<\/p>\n

“The bed-and-breakfast is generating huge amounts of cash money — $30,000 to $50,000 a month,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everybody — everybody — has some sort of hustle going on in this town: A faction of Hare Krishna — the kooky cult whose members are supposed to promote goodwill and forgiveness — is in the middle of a civil war following a string of lawsuits and a fistfight in its East Village temple in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}