{"id":2023,"date":"2007-01-17T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/would_a_shabbos_goy_still_get_five_percent.html"},"modified":"2007-01-17T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T18:52:44","slug":"would_a_shabbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/would_a_shabbos.html","title":{"rendered":"Would A Shabbos Goy Still Get Five Percent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This actually sounds a lot like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/newyork\/ny-nysein175055486jan17,0,4673879.story?coll=ny-nynews-print\">a premise for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Jerry Seinfeld may have to pay more money to be the master of his domain.<\/p>\n<p>The comic owes about $100,000 to the broker who helped him find a Manhattan townhouse last year, a judge ruled last week. Seinfeld refused to pay broker Tamara Cohen a full commission after she failed to meet him for a house tour on the Jewish sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>Seinfeld &#8212; referred to in court documents by his given name, Jerome &#8212; and his wife, Jessica, bought the home at 155 W. 82nd St. in February 2005 for $3.95 million. The Seinfelds struck the deal themselves after they were unable to reach Cohen, according to trial testimony. Cohen testified she told the Seinfelds she was an observant Jew and couldn&#8217;t work on Friday evening and before sundown Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Seinfeld was never told Cohen couldn&#8217;t work on the sabbath, said his attorney, Richard Menaker, who is seeking to have the decision overturned.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This actually sounds a lot like a premise for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode: Jerry Seinfeld may have to pay more money to be the master of his domain. The comic owes about $100,000 to the broker who helped him find a Manhattan townhouse last year, a judge ruled last week. Seinfeld refused to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}