NYC Tenant Owes $88k, Keeps Terrorizing Families

The owner of 85 East End Avenue has sued in Manhattan, claiming tenant Anne Stockton owes nearly $88,000 in unpaid rent. That's a lot of feed store receipts. The suit also says she harassed the family upstairs, drove at least three families out, and made at least 10 police calls on them that the suit calls groundless. Stockton has lived there since 1992 and declined the Post's requests for comment, which is her right. A judge signed a temporary restraining order days after the suit was filed. Back home, when a bill goes unpaid, the neighbors know before the lawyers do. Around here we'd settle it with a fence line and a hard talk. In Manhattan it takes a stack of paper taller than a hay bale.