Zelig Weiss could lastly get kicked out of the William Vale.
A decide ruled final month that the William Vale’s proprietor Eos Hospitality can evict Weiss’ firm Espresso Hospitality Administration from a collection on the Williamsburg lodge. It’s unclear whether or not Weiss himself resides within the suite; he has one other condo in Williamsburg.
Weiss’ firm managed the 22-story, 183-room property that he co-developed along with his former enterprise accomplice Yoel Goldman till Eos purchased the property for $177 million at a chapter auction in 2024. Weiss was supposed to maneuver out of the suite after the sale, however he by no means did, in accordance with the lawsuit Eos filed in Kings County Supreme Court docket.
Now, the decide has entered a default judgment towards Weiss’ firm, ruling that it didn’t file a response to the lawsuit earlier than a deadline set by the courtroom. He directed the sheriff to take away the corporate from the property.
The ruling comes after Weiss’ lawyer, Jon Brooks, argued that the corporate had not missed the court-mandated deadline as a result of it had joined Weiss’ authorized protection. The decide, nevertheless, referred to as this “nonsensical” as a result of Weiss’ protection had blamed the corporate for squatting.
Although the eviction suit has lasted just a bit over a 12 months, the possession battle on the coronary heart of the case traces again a lot additional.
Weiss and Goldman had been as soon as two of Brooklyn’s most distinguished Hasidic developers. When the duo opened the William Vale in 2016, it gave the impression to be the cherry on prime of Goldman’s billion-dollar actual property portfolio that tapped into low-cost financing from the Israeli bond market.
However the empire quickly got here crashing down. Goldman’s firm, All Yr Holdings, filed for Chapter 11 chapter in 2021 after its lenders initiated foreclosures on all of its properties and the corporate missed funds to its Israeli bondholders.
Then got here Eos, who scored the property in 2024 for $177 million at a chapter public sale. The corporate rapidly requested Weiss to maneuver out of the suite his firm was utilizing to handle the property. However Weiss didn’t transfer. By August 2024, Eos served Weiss with a ten-day notice, ordering him to maneuver out. He nonetheless didn’t budge.
In June 2025, Eos filed a lawsuit towards Weiss in Kings County Supreme Court docket, asking the decide to evict him as soon as and for all. The decide, Richard Velasquez, set a deadline of Nov. 20, 2025, for Weiss and his firm to reply.
Weiss’ lawyer, Jon Brooks, rapidly filed a motion on Sept. 12, 2025, asking the decide to dismiss the lawsuit. He argued that Weiss was not the true occupant of the suite. As a substitute, it was his firm: Espresso Hospitality Administration.
However Espresso didn’t file its personal movement to dismiss the lawsuit till Jan. 28, two months after the November 2025 deadline. Even then, they joined Weiss’ movement, which argued that Espresso was the true squatter.
The decide pounced on the logical error. In a July 14 ruling, he argued that the corporate couldn’t be part of Weiss’ protection because it implicated Espresso. He added that the corporate had missed the submitting deadline by two months and included no extra arguments to exempt it from eviction, main him to rule by default towards the corporate. Now, it’s on the sheriff to kick the corporate out.
Neither Weiss’ nor Eos’ attorneys responded to requests for remark.
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