A woman says the landlord of her $900-a-month apartment ordered the super to scare her out of the Chelsea building by trying to choke her with a broom handle, according to a shocking new lawsuit.
The Manhattan civil suit says the super, Noe Ortega, 35, dragged tenant Sylvia Rivera, 73, into the basement where he beat her up, then tried to kill her with a motley mix of materials including a plastic bag, broom handle and his own hands.
Rivera, who lives at 317-321 W. 21st St., escaped the alleged brutal attack and called 911.
“He tried to kill me in the basement,” Rivera told The Post Monday. “The man is a monster.”
Ortega was arrested and is awaiting trial on assault and harassment charges.
Rivera claims that the super’s employer, Joseph Kizner ordered him to harass, intimidate and threaten residents of the 20-unit building.
“I think he wants people to leave,” said the retired medical assistant, who’s rent-stabilized apartment is just two blocks from the High Line.
Her suit details the alleged July 7 attack.
Around 7:30 a.m. the super got into an argument with Rivera, according to court papers.
After dragging the grey-haired woman to the basement Ortega “repeatedly struck her in the head, face and body,” forced her to the ground, put a plastic bag over her head, a broom handle to her neck and then tried to choke her with his hands, court papers allege.
She says in court papers that Kizner “had actual and constructive knowledge” of “Ortega’s escalating, bad behavior,” to the extent that a “violent attack” was foreseeable.
Despite the scare Rivera, who has lived in her first-floor, one-bedroom unit since 1972, says she’s not moving out.
Similar one-bedrooms in the neighborhood sell for around $600,000, according to listings.
She’s suing for unspecified damages.
Kizner did not return phone calls. The super, who has been ordered by a criminal court judge to stay away from Rivera, was not at home Monday. His defense lawyer did not return messages for comment.
Ortega is due back in criminal court next month.