The owner of an Upper West Side beauty parlor has agreed to pay $7,500 to a 101-year-old patron who complained to the city’s Human Rights Commission that she was turned away for arriving in a wheelchair.
“We got as far as the door, and this young woman said her boss ‘won’t let her in,’ ” said Juliette Gould, who took her mom, Nettie Lobsenz, then 99, to Mayra’s Beauty Salon, at 608 Amsterdam Ave., on April 20, 2008.
“I said, ‘Is there a problem with the wheelchair? ” Gould said. “The woman said, ‘The boss doesn’t want to let her in because she can’t walk,’ ” Gould recalled.
So Gould went home to get a walker — but the parlor worker wouldn’t budge.
“We just don’t want her in [here],” Gould quoted her as saying, adding that she was later told there were “liability issues.”
The parlor owners last week signed a conciliation agreement to pay the $7,500 — while denying any discrimination. They also said they would put a sign in their window welcoming people with disabilities.
They declined comment when reached by The Post.
Gould said her mom was “more puzzled than anything else” at what happened at the parlor.
“She didn’t quite understand why the woman was so dead set against her getting in,” Gould said.