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Judge gives Macklowe’s wife 60 days to decide on Park Ave. pad

 		Judge gives Macklowe’s wife 60 days to decide on Park Ave. pad

He may never be rid of her!

The estranged wife of billionaire Big Apple developer Harry Macklowe has another 60 days to decide whether she wants to keep one of the former couple’s adjacent Park Avenue pads or give it up, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.

Harry Macklowe, 80 — who jettisoned his 79-year-old wife, Linda, for a much younger mistress — had already drawn up blueprints to expand his unit at 432 Park Ave. into the one his soon-to-be-ex had planned to purchase next door. He wants to make a new uber-pad for him and his girlfriend.

But Linda Macklowe, a trustee at the Met and Guggenheim museums, sued CIM Group, Harry Macklowe’s business partner in the development, over the move in September.

She asked the judge to halt Harry’s construction plans — and also delay the closing on her buying the apartment until the divorce was finalized.

Harry Macklowe protested, noting that the ruling in the matrimonial case is not expected until spring, at the earliest.

“If Mrs. Macklowe buys the property, then she will be my neighbor,” Harry Macklowe noted from the witness stand during the divorce trial last week.

Both sides declared victory Tuesday when Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen ruled that if Linda closes on the 432 Park Ave. apartment within two months, Harry will have to scrap his expansion plans.

“We’re gratified with the court’s ruling that will put a prompt end to this case,” said Ronald Greenberg, who represents CIM Group.

Linda’s lawyer, Adam Leitman Baliey, said, “We’re extremely happy about winning this most important part of the case. We put her in the game.

“She has the ability to either buy [the apartment] or get her money back,” he said, referencing her down payment.

In divorce court last week, Linda’s lawyer admitted that she just doesn’t want to give up the unit so that her husband can snap it up at a discounted rate from his business partner.

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