Exclusive | NYC tenant from hell wont stop terrorizing young families owes $88K in rent, wild lawsuit claims

She’s the wicked witch of the East End.A kid-hating crone has turned a luxury Upper East Side building into a living hell for her upstairs neighbors — driving at least three families out of their apartments all while racking up nearly $88,000 in unpaid rent, a new lawsuit claims.Anne Stockton, 72, is being sued by the owner of 85 East End Avenue for allegedly tormenting the family of five currently living in the unit directly above her cushy, $1,775-a-month rent-stabilized apartment on the 10th floor.Stockton has repeatedly screamed “profanities, threats and derogatory racial comments” — such as “you f—ing animals” — at Tara and Riad Abrahams and their three children since they moved in in November 2025, the suit claims.She’s also been banging on her ceiling with what sounds like a lead pipe “for hours on end” and has called the cops on the family at least 10 times “based upon groundless and unsubstantiated allegations,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court filing from Monday.The bad behavior “has no other purpose than to drive [the family] out of their home,” the lawsuit contends, “just as [Stockton] has done with the three prior tenants of [the unit].”Stockton declined repeated requests for comment, but records show she’s lived in the elegant doorman building overlooking the East River — where a four-bedroom apartment is currently listed for over $21,000 a month in rent — since 1992.Her alleged targeting of tenants in the unit upstairs dates back to at least 2013, however, when Jennifer Gaydos Stephan lived there with her then-husband Scott Hartman and their four children, according to the suit.“She was a disaster,” Stephan told The Post about Stockton.“She would constantly take a broom and hit the ceiling daily.

She would leave nasty notes on my door, saying, ‘tell your kids to be quiet.’”The mom said she “loved” living at the building, which is right by Carl Schurz Park and boasts a fitness center, c...