Luxury interior designer sues co-op over soot-stained penthouse

Luxury interior designer sues co-op over soot-stained penthouse
A high-end interior designer says his Gramercy Park penthouse co-op has for years been decorated in very unfashionable black soot that blows in from a ventilation system, causing him health problems and turning his “dream apartment into a complete nightmare.” In a $1 million Manhattan Supreme Court suit, Timothy Whealon claims that “a mysterious black…