Judge orders a wall to separate battling spouses

Like two Cold War adversaries, Chana and Simon Taub are separated by a wall — one built straight down the middle of their home to keep the bickering spouses apart.

Neither one wanted to move out of their beloved Brooklyn house, and so, in one of the strangest divorce battles the city has seen, a white drywall partition was erected a few weeks ago on orders from a judge.

The wall separates the living room from the staircase on the bottom floor of the Taubs' richly decorated home, a three-story brown-brick rowhouse whose market value has been put at $923,000 by the city.

She gets the top floor, where the bedrooms are situated, along with the kitchen on the second floor. He gets the living room on the first floor and the dining room on the second floor. So that they don't run into each other on the second floor, the door between the dining room and the kitchen is barricaded on both sides.