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Battle over will could reshape Village

The heirs to William Gottlieb, one of New York City's most prolific and eccentric property owners, are once again involved in a bitter legal fight regarding what one family member claims is as much as $2 billion worth of property in Greenwich Village and Chelsea.

The plaintiff in the case, Michael Corbett, 37, is the great-nephew of Gottlieb and claims that his uncle, Neil Bender, carved...

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