Lawsuit: 'Co-Op Board Booted My Application To Buy Apartment, Saying My Yet-To-Be-Born Baby Might Be Too Noisy For Neighbors!'

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• They don’t mean maybe when they say: “No babies!” A Manhattan woman trying to buy a Staten Island co-op claims she was booted as a buyer because she’s with child.
  
  Elena Slukina, who is “visibly pregnant,” says she put in the winning bid for apartment 5N at 36 Hamilton Ave. in July. Still facing board approval, the current Murray Hill resident went to an interview with the co-op board earlier this month — and allegedly got a grilling on her family planning.
  
  Board President Maria Civille and other members “expressed their concern that a child growing up in the building might affect other tenants’ peace and quiet,” according to Manhattan Supreme Court papers filed by Slukina last week.
  
  Although there are a few families with kids already living there, Civille claimed that thin walls and floors mean noise travels easily and that she was reluctant to approve an application “that would bring a potentially noisy child in [an] otherwise quiet co-op,” according to Slukina’s complaint.
  
  The next day, the board rejected Slukina’s application. It has since tried to find another buyer for the co-op shares that Slukina won at auction.
  
  A judge has approved Slukina’s request for a temporary restraining order. Civille did not return a message seeking comment.

Source: Gal with pregnant cause sues co-op board.