A Shoreham nonprofit developing a $24 million museum honoring Nikola Tesla has filed a $3.5 million state lawsuit alleging a Bohemia demolition crew caused a 2023 fire that severely damaged the Serbian inventor’s former laboratory.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in Suffolk County State Supreme Court, also alleges demolition contractor Green Island Group Corp. allowed an insurance policy to lapse shortly before the November 2023 blaze, leaving museum organizers to pay for damage repairs.

Officials of Friends of Science East, the nonprofit spearheading museum construction, have said the fire set back efforts to build the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a museum that is to collect and display artifacts from the inventor, who conducted some of his early experiments in wireless communic

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