Exclusive | NYC building sues tenant allegedly spewing vile rhetoric at neighbors: DEATH To you beyond below around above this Apartment Space

So much for the sanctity of home.The owners of an Upper East Side rental are suing a resident for upwards of $1.5 million in damages as they look to oust her for continued harassment and abuse of neighbors, passersby and staff. East 77 Owners filed a complaint against tenant Layla Al-Marzooqi, an artist who lives in Apartment 1B at the five-story, 10-unit 436 E.77th St.

after she verbally accosted neighboring tenants in the hallways and on the sidewalk, screamed inside her apartment for consecutive hours, harassed the superintendent, and posted a threatening sign on her front door, according to court documents recently filed in New York State Supreme Court. “She wasn’t always the nicest person to deal with but I could deal with her.It was fine,” building managing agent Matthew Goodman with Eric Goodman Realty told The Post.But in April, “something flipped,” he said.“It just kept escalating.

We were hoping it was a random incident and it would stop.It has been absolute chaos,” he said.Goodman said the property’s owners — a family — speak through him.When Eric Goodman Realty began managing No.

436 and the two adjoining buildings, which have separate entrances but all share a laundry room, in 2022, Al-Marzooqi was already living in a studio apartment in one of them, No.440, Goodman said.He said he had no problem upgrading Al-Marzooqi — who didn’t respond to requests for comment — to a one-bedroom dwelling in November 2024 in No.

436, because while she was “a little difficult,” she was “never rude or threatening.” Her rent started at $3,000 per month.But then on April 12, Al-Marzooqi, “directed a stream of obscenities at a neighboring tenant in the hallway,” the suit claims.“She cursed me out in the hallway for no apparent reason other than my girlfriend’s dog was over and she hates dogs,” the neighbor told The Post.“A few days later, she was screaming all day so [Goodman] said a checkup was warranted by the police.

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