Two Boots Founders' Home To Be Sold After Bitter Divorce: Report

EAST VILLAGE, NY — The co-founders behind NYC's Two Boots pizzeria are locked in a bitter battle over their former shared home, an East Village townhouse that will likely be sold in bankruptcy for $10 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Doris Kornish and Phil Hartman, who founded the pizza chain's original East Village location in 1987, filed for divorce in 2005, but are still in dispute over what should happen to their five-story townhouse in the East Village. Hartman sued his ex-wife in 2015, claiming that she had kept the East Village home even after they had agreed to sell the residence. The home is currently listed in chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to city property records. (Want more local news? Sign up here for free news alerts and neighborhood updates from Patch.)

According to the Wall Street Journal, the home will be listed in a bankruptcy auction to pay off more than $5 million in debt. Real-estate broker Warburg Realty told the Journal that it was looking to list the home for $10 million.

Hartman filed suit to move his ex-wife to sell the home, but Kornish says she's not looking to leave.

“I have done so much work in my home to make it my home,” she told the Journal.

The chain has expanded from its original East Village location to include nine restaurants in New York City, plus one that's to come in the Financial District, as well as outposts in Los Angeles and Nashville.

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