He’s between a rock star and a hard place.
A real estate exec who plunked down $3.3 million for a unique Soho apartment is battling Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture over the yard behind their homes, claiming the musician is “fixated” on the green space — and has made life in the building hell in his quest to obtain it.
Toby Dodd of Cushman & Wakefield, and his wife, Julie de Pontbriand, moved into 42 King St. in 2017, snagging the ground-floor apartment and private rear yard.
They later snatched up the garden next door at 44 King St., along with a small ground-floor room in that building for a song, shelling out $300,000, court papers show.
In 2019, Fraiture — whose band won a Grammy in 2021 for best rock album — and his wife, Ilona, bought a ground-floor unit in 44 King and the basement.
They sued in 2021, claiming the units purchased by the Dodds had been illegally combined, and prevented them from doing desired renovations.
Now the Fraitures have one mission: to claim 44 King’s garden as their own, claim the Dodds, who filed their own lawsuit against Fraitures last week.
The approximately 45-by-40-foot area is the “real value” of the property and so unusual in Manhattan, it was hailed by The New York Times for its “treasure-like quality,” Dodd and Pontbriand contend in court papers.
“The Fraitures’ motivation is simple: the Dodds have exclusive rights over the building’s garden and the Fraitures want it for themselves,” according to court papers.
Calling the Dodds the owners of 44 King Street’s private garden is a “false…