Exclusive | Super Bowl champ Chris Canty accused of letting tenant go without utilities for 2 years in appalling campaign against renter: Wants to destroy me

Former star New York Giant defensive lineman Chris Canty has gone on offense — against his Upper West Side tenant.The Super Bowl champ and co-host of ESPN Radio’s “Unsportsmanlike” has been accused of unnecessary roughness as he tries to oust the last remaining resident of a five-story, $5.2 million townhouse Canty owns, according to court records.The 6-foot-7-inch, 380-pound defensive end wants to transform the nine-unit West 89th Street building into his own luxury townhouse — but 5-foot-6 data analyst Stuart Kalmenson stands in his way.“I had the choice of either getting bullied, or fighting the good fight,” Kalmenson said.  Kalmenson, 59, has lived in his two-bedroom apartment just steps from Central Park for 19 years, paying $2,600 a month rent when Canty, who works out of NYC for ESPN and has a home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, bought the building.But his longtime home has become a house of horrors.Kalmenson has spent more than two years without utilities, made it through the winter without heat or hot water; and lives with floors so rotted and chewed through by mice he’s been force “to ‘block off’ about one-third of the living room for safety reasons,” he claimed in court filings.He kept warm with a space heater and washes his clothes in the bathtub, alleged Kalmenson, who told the court the condition of his home was “truly appalling and unsafe,” records show.“He just wants to destroy me,” Kalmenson, who has traded multiple legal blows with Canty, told The Post.The rest of the tenants moved out as their leases expired, about three months after the 2011 Super Bowl winner bought the building in March 2020, Canty said in court papers.Around the same time, Kalmenson — who had lost his job during the pandemic — had planned to move into a friend’s basement, but the arrangement fell through at the last minute, he said.After that, he negotiated with Canty’s real estate management company and became a month-to-month tenan...