The Hotel Chelsea sues NYC penthouse residents for blocking repairs on finished roof terrace where rock stars once hung out

Move over Sid and Nancy — The Hotel Chelsea has a new power couple.Tenants Johnathan and Susan Berg have been accused of rocking the famous West 23rd Street address to its foundation by blocking roofers from probing a leak in the 150-year-old roof — with the confrontation getting physical and leaving one worker fearful for his safety, a new lawsuit claims. The Bergs, who have been paying roughly $2,500 a month for the luxurious, rent-stabilized penthouse they have lived in since the 70s — and where they’ve hung out with punk rock stars like Patti Smith — are going to war because the work will tear up a hunk of their lavishly appointed roof garden.The building’s owners, however, are fighting back in court in an effort to force the longtime squeaky wheels to let the workers in.“The tenant above will not give us access,” the manager told a Post reporter Thursday.“It’s not a pleasant situation,” one resident said, “as people are still living in the building and have reservations about their approach towards solving issues in the building and trying to basically stop it at times from going forward.”On Jan.7, the Bergs placed their bohemian bodies between workers and the leak they were sent to probe on the couple’s finished terrace, despite previously agreeing to allow the work, lawyers for the storied hotel argue.A worker at the confrontation said he was fearful that “someone [might] put hands on somebody,” according to the suit.The Bergs allegedly told the workers they were unaware of the appointment for the works, which would have involved tearing up about a four square feet of the terrace patio to probe for water leaking.Facing the possible defiling of their tiny Manhattan oasis, the renters began demanding that the contractors not conduct the probe, and only repair “what we can see,” the suit claims.“Susan Berg threatened to ‘just stand over there,’ indicating the location of the roof where the probe would be taken, in or...