By Frank Lovece  Published:  Nov. 21, 2014

In the great big playground of life, co-ops and condos are the sandbox, or maybe the tree house. Either way, the kids playing there mostly get along and mostly determine their own workable rules of behavior. And then you have your Calvin and Hobbes situations, where one board member declares he’s president, and another board member declares a coup, and another board member calls the police and a judge appoints a referee to sort it all out.

This is the case, with surprising literalness, at 622A President Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. Despite the seeming serenity of the four-story, 1912-vintage red-brick building on a leafy side street, the shareholders of its four apartments have been embroiled in a lawsuit that even Calvin might find bewildering.    Read more