Law and odor in CPW war
This neighbor really stinks, a lawsuit claims.
Linda Cohen, who lives on the 17th floor of historic 25 Central Park West, leaves weird notes covered in garlic powder for another tenant, smokes so much pot that the fumes seep into adjoining apartments, and holds “drum circle parties,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The landlord, 25 CPW City Views LLC, is so fed up with Cohen’s alleged antics, including fabricated noise complaints, it is suing her for being a nuisance.
Cohen is fixated on her upstairs neighbor, Hedy Stempler, the landlord charges. She once showed up at Stempler’s apartment “ringing the doorbell, shouting and then throwing a powdery substance at Stempler and pushing an orange in Stempler’s face,” according to the complaint.
Stempler declined to comment.
Cohen insisted that she doesn’t hold “drum circles.”
Instead, she said, she holds occasional “goddess circles” with six other women, during which they discuss goddesses and perform a closing song involving drums, a tambourine, a violin and a flute.
“I am very protective of my peace and quiet,” she insisted, complaining that the current and previous upstairs neighbors “did everything they could to make my life totally miserable.
“For me, it was fighting for my life.”
She also insisted she never smokes marijuana, and only “rubbed cinnamon” on the neighbor’s doorknob, explaining, “It was a little thing I could do to make her sneeze.”