Even Celebrity Neighbors Have Leaky Sinks, and Get Sued for Them

June 13, 2014 — The estate of Philip Seymour Hoffman is being sued by the late actor's downstairs neighbors, Gene Hoffnagel and his wife, Anna Erdelyi, over water damage they allege happened in June 2011 from a kitchen-sink leak. According to court documents cited by the New York Daily News, Hoffman — who used his fourth-floor apartment at Pickwick House, at 35 Bethune Street in Manhattan's West Village, as an office and guest home — had assured the couple his insurance company would pay for the $87,329.60 damages to their condo apartment.