Cabnormal behavior
Wild ride came after UWS apt. clash: landlord
The back seat of a cab isn’t the only place she won’t leave.
The passenger who allegedly held a cabby virtually hostage for 10 hours while she searched for a hotel she liked also refused to vamoose from her former Upper West Side pad, her former landlord claimed Saturday.
Shira Belfer, 62 — who Kulvinder Singh Ahluwalia said would not exit his cab Friday as she ran up a fare that ultimately cost her $230 — also had an odyssey of sorts in her pre-war one-bedroom apartment, the landlord alleged to The Post.
At first, Belfer appeared to be a dream tenant, the landlord said. When she entered into a seven- month lease on April 28, 2017, she paid $31,200 in rent upfront, according to the landlord, who wished to remain anonymous.
But things quickly went south after only a few weeks, he claimed.
“Ms. Belfer [was] becoming a nuisance in the building,” the landlord claimed. “It was awful.”
He asked Belfer to vacate the apartment and offered to fully refund her money, but she refused, he said.
The landlord then began an eviction process against Belfer, according to public records.
A judge approved the request and she was removed, records show. She was finally kicked out of the apartment by a marshal on March 7, the landlord said.
Belfer’s attorney did not return calls.
Asked about the drama in her old building, Belfer told The Post Saturday that she’d like to countersue her ex-landlord.
“I want to sue him in bigger court, because that’s much more money,” she said.
Belfer was back on the road Saturday when she snagged a cab from a storage facility on West 55th Street to a Comfort Inn at 154 Madison St. — where law-enforcement authorities quickly picked her up and took her to Bellevue Hospital.
Police showed up at the hotel around 2:40 p.m., removed her luggage and told her she could not go into the building.