Lawsuit: Cancer survivor claims landlord evicted her over illness


A Manhattan cancer survivor claims her landlord tormented her and evicted her from her apartment, since a apartment’s government association was fearful she would not be means to compensate franchise if her illness returned, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 25 in Manhattan Federal Court, DNAinfo.com reported.

In a lawsuit, Heatheran Kristopher, 43, pronounced once new government took over a Upper East Side building in 2011, a landlord started badgering her.

“I feel totally alone,” Kristopher told DNAinfo.com. “I feel totally mislaid right now. we know it’s usually an apartment, though it’s only what we went by here. we healed myself here. we came home from chemo and laid in this backyard.”

Kristopher battled ovarian and colon cancer in 2008, that is when she changed into a unit on East 81st Street.

She went by chemotherapy and deviation during Memorial Sloan Kettering and eventually fell behind on her rent. She due some-more than $10,000 when a new government company, Stone Street Properties LLC, took over a building in Sep 2011. The month prior, Kristopher sealed a two-year franchise with a prior owners, Icon Management – though pronounced she never perceived a printed duplicate of a franchise before Stone Street took over.  

In September, Kristopher pronounced her new landlords began dire her to leave.

Court papers prove Robert Morgenstern, co-founder of Stone Street, showed adult during her doorway and demanded a $5,000. Kristopher pronounced she told Morgenstern she had cancer and claims that’s when he started yelling during her.

“How do we know you’re not going to get cancer again?” Morgenstern asked her, according to justice documents.

Stone Street told Kristopher her new franchise was not valid, according to documents, even propelling her to pointer a obtuse lease. The association also attempted to boost her franchise by $700, according to a lawsuit.

In Nov 2011, Stone Street attempted to exude Kristopher, to that she filed a taste explain with a New York Division of Housing and Urban Development, as good as a New York State Division of Human Rights. She after withdrew a petition to a tellurian rights group so she could record a sovereign lawsuit.

Kristopher was forced to leave a building Monday when a New York Supreme Court ruled in Stone Street’s favor.

“She’s a green grapes tenant, who was evicted since she had no lease,” Morgenstern told DNAInsider. He claims he never done a criticism about Kristopher’s illness. “I definitely repudiate any wrongdoing.”

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