The Third Church of Christ, Scientist at Park Avenue and 63rd Street has been embroiled in a long legal battle over its right to rent space to a catering company for posh private events. The Christian Scientists argued that they needed the revenue generated by the functions to prevent the building from crumbling, and Upper East Side neighbors responded by saying the church had become a for-profit catering hall, and the traffic and noise was out of control. Those neighbors bugged their politically connected buddies, those buddies bugged the Buildings Department, and pretty soon the church's permit got yanked. The church sued, and the back-and-forth has been pretty classic. One neighbor said the church's crowded social calendar "may be better done down in Chelsea," and the church tried to subpoena records from nearby co-ops to expose their party-throwing ways. Now the Times reports that a judge has ruled in favor of the church, and has taken some pretty stinging shots at the DOB in the process.

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