My question involves civil rights in the State of: NY
Please help me. I need information. My landlord and his rental agent are both harassing me horribly by making false claims against me. They even went so far as to send me a letter giving me a final notice of eviction warning, stating that if they get one more complaint against me, I will be evicted.
I am 61, physically disabled and I know that because of their neglect against me that I have been experiencing since I first moved into my lovely apartment in August of 2011, they will not renew my lease.
I am quiet, clean and extremely considerate of my neighbors at all times. I live above a very mean, elderly couple who have done nothing but lie to the landlord about me harassing them when in fact, it is them who have been harassing me terribly since my move in date.
I was only here for 3 weeks when my landlord called me and told me that he had received a complaint about me stating that I was throwing trash from my bathroom window. I was shocked when he told me this and my reply was, "I would never do such a foolish thing, I am a very clean person." His reply to me was, "Well, just don't do it anymore."
In December of 2011, as I was walking down the stairs to retrieve my mail, the 6 ft tall elderly man viciously turned to me and stated, "You're a god damned bum!" I was terribly frightened by his violent action.
In January of 2012, while in the presence of my 24 year old grandaughter and her friend, the elderly man physically lunged at me screaming foul language. My grandaughter told him to get away from me, (we were going into my storage unit in the basement) Suddenly the crazed man lunged at her and yelled at her while still using foul language yelling, "You tell your god damned grandmother to stop causing trouble for me!" I was shocked. I had only called the office one time in the past due to their horrible booming and banging all throughout the days, which the rental agent replied telling me that they could make as much noise as they want, from 7 am to 10 pm.
The letter that was sent to me by my landlord and his rental manager now tells me that the elderly couple below me told him that I called him an asshole, when in fact, I would never call another human being a foul name.
I don't know what to do. I can't move as the last move nearly killed me. I am completely innocent of my landlord's charges and the elderly couple's lies. And, my landlord told me recently, "If anyone goes, it won't be them, they've been here for 17 years." Yet, he breaks his own lease and allows another tenant to abuse and assault me, over and over?
Please tell me what to do? I contacted Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, but I have not heard from her as of yet. And, I contacted Housing Authority here.

