Little Italy museum seeks to evict 85 year old Italian-American grandma
Oh for God sakes! Talk about greed. She's 85 and probably won't live much longer. If she does it'll probably be at an assisted living facility.
NEW YORK — A fight in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood between a landlord who wants a tenant out and a tenant who doesn't want to leave isn't your run-of-the-mill New York City real estate struggle.
That's because the landlord is a museum dedicated to the legacy of Italian-Americans, and the tenant is an 85-year-old Italian-American grandmother who has lived there for more than 50 years.
"Why would you want to throw me out when I lived here all my life?" asked Adele Sarno, a feisty, raspy-voiced woman who proudly tells how she once even served as queen of the annual Feast of San Gennaro, Little Italy's most well-known event. "This is my neighborhood."
Sarno said the fight over her $820-a-month, two-bedroom apartment above the Italian American Museum began about five years ago. That's when she received a letter seeking to increase that rent to $3,500 a month, far more than the retired shopkeeper says she can afford.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/little-italy-museum-seeks-to-evict-italian-american-grandma/ar-AAarja9
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that's probably the reason. I never could figure out why the city has rent stabilized apt. and us in the burbs pay full market. Ghetto dwellings with section 8 tenants go for more here.
PS loved the duct tape chair....to bad she didn't get it covered in clear plastic.
