A woman for 60 has rented an apartment in New York for $ 28 per month

Renting a property in New York is very expensive, but until March 2018, a woman for decades managed to rent a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village for just $ 28,43 a month.

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Patricia O'Grady moved to New York in 1955 to continue her acting career, writes CNN.

She and her three friends found a modest 2-room apartment on the top floor of an 4-storey building. It was a pretty good deal. In exchange for sweeping corridors and maintaining cleanliness in the building, the landlord set their rent at 16 dollars per month.

Years passed, and her neighbors gradually moved out, but O'Grady stayed in the apartment, because during 60 for years she managed to rent an apartment at an extremely reasonable price.

In March, 2018, the 84-year-old O'Grady, was hit by a car when a woman was walking near her house, the accident was fatal for her.

According to real estate agent Gary Nuremberg, such apartments in the area usually cost tenants from 5 to 7 thousands of dollars per month depending on the size of the bedrooms.

The last owner of O'Grady’s apartment was Adam Pomeranz, who bought the building in 2002. After the acquisition, the man was surprised to find out that one of the tenants was paying such a low rent.

The previous owner had passed away a few years before, and the building manager told Pomeranz that the late owner had never raised the rent for O'Grady because he loved her very much and that they were good friends.

When Pomeranz bought the property, O'Grady paid 26,45 dollars per month for an apartment. The man decided to check how legal it was, and his lawyer explained to him that due to the laws on stabilizing the rent, he could raise the rent for a woman by no more than 1,98 dollars per month.

After that, he asked O'Grady to think about moving to another housing, but the woman replied that she did not intend to move, and asked her not to ask her again.

In response, Pomeranz raised the rent for the actress on 1,98 dollars and could raise it every year, in accordance with the law. But he didn’t do it the way he and O'Grady became friends.

“She was a very kind woman, she was a customer in my store,” said Pomerantz, who owns the neighboring buildings Murray's bagels.

“Overall, she was just a great tenant,” the man concluded.

Over the decades of life in the apartment of the actress, she turned into a "landfill with character," as one of her friends called her, and urgently needs repairs.

In the 2005 year, when Pomeranz first entered the O'Grady apartment (before she refused to let him in), he noticed that there was no heating or hot water in the room. He begged the woman to install a water heater, but she refused.

“She told me, ‘I don’t deserve these renovations and these improvements. I don't pay enough rent to justify the cost. I’m doing great the way I am,” Pomerantz said.

However, he installed a heating unit in the apartment that cost $12—the equivalent of about 000 years of her monthly lease payments. But according to the homeowner, O'Grady never used it.

After the woman’s death, the apartment is still filled with her trinkets: books, scripts, photographs, paintings and souvenirs.

There is no bath or shower in the room, O'Grady went to the local YMCA to take a shower every day.

Pomeranz plans to renovate the apartment over the next few months, equip it with everything necessary and put it on the rental market.

He intends to donate it for 5000 dollars per month.

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