NYC HOA Sued For Allegedly 'Stealing' Little Old Lady's Parking Spot; Management's Offer To Place 93-Year Old Mom On 10-Year Wait List For New Spot Not Adequate: Son

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• Management at a Lower East Side apartment complex allegedly stole a little old lady’s parking spot — and now the 93-year-old is suing to get it back.
  
  Virginia Rubino has kept her sea-foam green 1967 Cadillac convertible in parking spot 1 in the Seward Park Housing Corp. garage since 1987, and she’s had the spot since 1981. But when her son, Richard, went to return it in May after getting some work done on the classic vehicle, he discovered another car parked there — and it wasn’t a mistake.
  
  “We were told we don’t have access to the spot anymore,” Richard said.
  
  The lawyer for the management company told Virginia that “her right to her parking spot was revoked” because the car had “not been operable of driving in over a year” and the registration and insurance policy had expired. She was also told she’d been sent several notices about the problem. Richard said none of the claims were true.
  
  The son said while his mom’s no longer in good enough health to drive, he uses the car to take her to doctor’s appointments. The suit says having the car parked farther away is a physical hardship for Virginia, and Richard says it’s a financial hardship, too.
  
  While the spot in the complex’s garage cost about $100 a month, the public garage it’s in now is closer to $600.
  
  The Manhattan Supreme Court suit says that when Rubino complained, the managing agent offered to add her name to the end of the garage’s waiting list, which had hundreds of people on it. “It’s a 10-year wait,” Richard said.
  
  The suit seeks the spot’s immediate return, plus unspecified money damages for the lifelong Lower East Side resident. The lawyer for the co-op board, Arthur Weinstein, said that the building acted properly but that if Rubino wants “to bring additional facts to our attention” as to why she needs the spot, “we’ll be happy to listen.”

Source: ‘I need my space’: Gal, 93, sues to keep garage spot.