Eugene Moye’s wife can’t afford to leave their rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side until a divorce settlement is reached. The pair do not talk.
Photo: Michael Sofronski
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Levy and Lipman are just one of many couples in the city who are living together after their romantic relationships expire, mostly due to financial situations and the high cost of New York housing.
“The current scarcity of real estate options in New York City for people going through a litigated divorce often makes co-habitating the only viable option,” says Todd Spodek, divorce attorney and partner at Spodek Law Group in Tribeca.
“Plus, if you voluntarily move out and can support yourself, your claim for [spousal] support is diminished.”
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Ten blocks south of the Beresford, things are far from harmonious at the three-bedroom, rent-controlled apartment of cellist Eugene Moye, a member of the American Symphony Orchestra, and his wife, Gail Kruvand, a bass player and member of the on-hiatus New York City Opera orchestra.
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“My wife and I don’t talk,’’ says Moye. “She still lives here, but we stay in different rooms and act like ships passing in the night. Our friends say the notion of she and I in the same apartment at this point is inhuman, but it’s been too expensive for Gail to find another place.”
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Caroline Riley and her boyfriend Steven, who asked that his last name not be used for professional reasons, share the bedroom of their apartment near Yankee Stadium, even though they split up two years ago.
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