100-Year-Old UES Woman Spared From Eviction, Report Says

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A 100-year-old woman will not be evicted from the the rent-controlled Upper East Side apartment she has lived in for more than five decades, New York 1 first reported.

Just Lopez's landlord, Paley Management Corp., withdrew an eviction notice against the centenarian after NY1 and other media outlets reported on the eviction effort. Lopez had also filed a counter-suit against the landlord to drop the eviction and make needed repairs to the First Avenue and East 78th Street apartment she rents for $150 per month.

Lopez broke her hip last year when she slipped on the living room floor of her apartment, she told the New York Post. Her landlord claimed that she was no longer using the home as a primary residence because she was recovering at her daughter's Long Island home after stints in the hospital and a nursing home, according to the report.

Lopez' lawyer Dov Treiman told the New York Post that the landlord's eviction is financially motivated.

In Lopez's apartment building a similar two-bedroom unit that is not rent controlled can fetch as much as $2,700 per month, the lawyer told the Post.

Lopez will continue to recover at her daughter's house as her landlord makes repairs, NY1 reported.

"We need to make the apartment in the condition where she can be safe, not worry about falling down," Lopez' lawyer Leitman Bailey told NY1.

Read NY1's full report here.

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