The owner of the Paper Doll Vintage Boutique filed a lawsuit seeking $4.5 million in damages, claiming the destruction of her life's work could have been prevented.A Sayville business owner, who lost her store because of a fire, filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Thursday against her landlord, a neighboring tenant, and others.
"When I looked back, there was black smoke that was already filling the room and I was panicked that I was in danger," she says. "The landlords, the property manager, the tenants that leased that commercial space they were the people, according to our investigation, that hired these companies that lacked these permits that led them on their premises, and they knew about it because of the amount of time that the work was going on,” he said.