Now that’s an everything bagel.
A woman is suing her former Soho landlord, claiming her apartment was a filthy hellhole where a pack of roaches swarmed her bagel and turned up everywhere, even inside the refrigerator.
Julia Perry said the Broome Street pad was a mess when she first toured it on June 20, which she described in the suit as “a dark and stormy day.”
She claims Universal Realty Group rental agent Jason Pilku promised that it would be scrubbed and painted — and even told her that he never saw pests in the seven years he sold units for the building.
But when she moved in on June 28, she discovered he never followed through, according to the lawsuit.
The apartment was so disgusting that Perry could only stand to live in the $2,700-a-month unit for four days, the lawsuit claims.
“The apartment was still filthy, and debris, including makeup and toothbrushes, were on [sic] still strewn about the floor, and feces was in the toilet,” the lawsuit said. “Roaches were seen in the cold refrigerator and swarmed Julia’s bagel.”
Vomit covered the fire escape, hallways were dirty, apartment locks were broken and the buzzer didn’t work, she claims.
Perry called Pilku and the building’s super “Denny” to fix the “uninhabitable” conditions. When the super came to help, he was useless and “visibly intoxicated,” the lawsuit claims.
Calls to the superintendent by The Post were not returned.
Building residents told The Post that no cleaners have been seen recently, and no renovations have been done. Dust blankets the halls, and the elevator is marked with graffiti. But a message was posted saying exterminators visit once a week.
The roof is littered with cigarette butts and beer cans, which were also stuffed into gutters. Abandoned sleeping bags were strewn about.
“There are rats and cockroaches,” said resident Alain Acosta. “I hear the rats in the ceiling.”
Acosta also said that he’s seen cockroaches in his third-floor apartment “a bunch.”
City inspectors cited the building for the dirty and unsafe conditions in the hallway, the lawsuit said. But the Department of Housing Preservation and Development was unable to access the apartment to investigate her cockroach complaints.
On June 29, Department of Buildings records show a complaint was filed indicating that the “elevator is filthy.”
Perry’s lawyer, Mark Bongiovanni, is seeking no less than $100,000.
Calls to defendants Pilku and building manager Raj Dhiman were not returned.