A Tony Award-winning choreographer allegedly danced around his exclusive deal with high-powered real estate firm Douglas Elliman to unload an historic firehouse in Harlem — selling it directly to Al Sharpton instead for $6 million.
Douglas Elliman wants Broadway star George Faison to pay them $360,000 — equal to the 6% commission the company said it should have earned on the sale.
Faison, 80, the first African-American to win a Tony for choreography for his work in 1974’s “The Wiz,” inked an agreement in July 2025 with Douglas Elliman to sell 4 and 6 Hancock Place in South Harlem, the real estate giant said in a lawsuit.
The buildings represent a combined 30,000-square-feet of space just south of 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. Faison bought 6 Hancock Pl., a shuttered Beaux Arts firehouse, in 2000 for $600,000 and converted it to a theater, with room for offices, a residence and a dance studio.
Faison bought adjacent 4 Hancock Pl. in 2013 for $1 million.
But after signing the agreement with Douglas Elliman, Faison allegedly “surreptitiously” sold the building’s to Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The company claimed the choreographer “deliberately refused to comply with his obligation under the listing agreement and sought to avoid paying the commission due to Douglas Elliman.”
Sharpton plans to move NAN to the property, and rename it the House of Justice Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Workshop.
“NAN purchased the firehouse property for $6 million and has already begun moving into the building,” spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger told The Post.
“We have no knowledge of the lawsuit or the allegations contained within it. Any legal dispute between Mr. Faison and Douglas Elliman is a matter between those parties, and NAN has no involvement in it.”
Faison claimed Douglas Elliman “had not called me since January,” when reached by The Post for comment.
“If we had any discrepancy they should have called me,” he added, before hanging up.
The choreographer “had a contractual obligation to refer all inquiries to Douglas Elliman,” said attorney Don Abraham, who is repping the real estate giant.