‘Psycho super tried to kill me’
A woman claims the landlord of her $900-amonth apartment ordered the super to scare her out of the Chelsea building by trying to choke her with a broom handle, according to a new lawsuit.
The Manhattan civil suit says the super, Noe Ortega, 35, dragged Sylvia Rivera, 73, into the basement, where he beat her up, then tried to kill her with materials including a plastic bag, a broom handle and his hands.
Rivera says she escaped the 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 the super’s employer, Joseph Kizner, ordered him to harass, intimidate and threaten residents of the 20-unit building on West 21st Street.
“I think he wants people to leave,” said the retired medical assistant, whose rent-stabilized apartment is just two blocks from the High Line.
Her suit details the al- leged attack this past July 7.
At around 7:30 a.m., the super got into an argument with Rivera, according to court papers.
After dragging her into 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, the court papers allege.
She claims that Kizner “had actual and constructive knowledge” of “Ortega’s escalating, bad behavior,” to the extent that a “violent attack” was foreseeable.
Rivera is suing for unspecified damages.
Kizner did not return phone calls.
Ortega’s lawyer did not return messages for comment.