A Manhattan landlord is trying to boot a 73-ye🍃ar-old woman out of her $972-a-month rent-stabilized apartment near Central Park by painting her as a hoarder and cr𝕴azy cat lady.
C. Gers🧸hon Co. sent Marianne Semiletov, 73, a 30-day termination notice on May 31 claimꦯing she was causing leaks at 16 E. 98th St. by “dumping cat litter down the toilet,” living in a “dirty and grimy” apartment, and entering neighbors’ homes uninvited.
The eviction notice also accuses French-born Semiletov, a retired home health-care ꧙aide, of “anti-social behavior” — including riding the elevator “approximately🍒 100 times per day without getting off” and following building employees around for “hours at a time.”
But Semiletov — who says she has only two cats and employs a weekly cleaning service — is su꧟ing to combat her eviction and stay in her home of more th꧅an 50 years.
In an affidavit, her lawye𓆏r Edward Kramer says he visited the tw😼o-bedroom and found the space “orderly, clean and well kept.”
“There were no odors of cats or anything else,” he a💯dded.
She and her lawyer claim the owners are taking advantage of 𝓀an elderly woman so they can rent or sell the apartment at a much higher 🐓price.
Her two-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom apartment w🐼ith 15-foot ceilings woཧuld rent for $4,000 a month or sell for around $1 million, according to court papers.
“If you are a 73-year-old person living on Social Security, how are y﷽ou going to feel when someone says they’re going to bring you t🔯o court to evict you?”
The soft-spoken woman denied her landlord’🦋s depiction of her as a crazy old woman as she showed The Post her clean, albeit trinket-filled, apartment.
This is not the first tim⛦e her landlord schemed to oust her from ♛the building, she said.
Two🍒 years ago she came home from visiting her sick mother to find the owners had changed her locks.
“It w꧙as unbelievable. First of all, it’s against the law,” she said.
“Sometimes I get a little upseꦦt,” shꦆe said. “My friend said don’t lose your sleep, because whatever will be will be.”