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City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
Jump to full article: New York Times Blogs, 2008-04-07
Author: Anemona Hartocollis
Intro: The war of the cigarettes is over at the Ansonia. The lawyer-couple who sued their neighbor at the historic Upper West Side apartment building because, they claimed, she was jeopardizing the health of their 4-year-old son with her smoking, have agreed to drop the lawsuit.
Jonathan Selbin, the class-action lawyer who, with is wife, Jenny, also a lawyer, sued their neighbor, Galila Huff, confirmed the settlement.
"True," Mr. Selbin said.
"She agreed to use the donated air filters and a smokeless ashtray, which is all we ever asked her to do," he said. "Period." . . .
Within days of publicity over the lawsuit, a company called Aerus, formerly known as Electrolux, offered to install a free air filtration system in both the Selbins’ and Ms. Huff’s apartments that the company said would clear the smoke.
Joe Urso, CEO of Aerus, said that the filtration system had been installed and that he believed it was instrumental in driving the settlement.
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