An Upper East Side landlord is trying to evict a 100-year-old tenant from her rent-controlled apartment by claiming she’s never there.
But Justa Lopez hasn’t been lounging on a beach — she broke her hip in a fall in the apartment, has spent the last year in and out of hospitals and claims the landlord just wants to cash in on her plight.
Lopez, who said she hasn’t missed a rent payment in the 50 years she has lived in the pad at First Avenue and East 78th Street, filed suit to keep her home and force the landlord to make it safer.
“They’ve been waiting to get rid of me. This is an excuse,” Lopez, who raised three children in the apartment and has 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, told The Post.
“It’s my home, my life is there.”
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NY Landloards are trying hard to get people who have 100+ year leases and rent controlled apartments to move out because the market value is substantially higher. Guess many of you folks don't understand this considering in Salisbury you pay twice in rent what your apartment is WORTH anyway! And you can thank people like John Cannon and Blair/Lisa Rinnier for that one!
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