NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who faced eviction from her Manhattan apartment over her three emotional support parrots will be paid $165,000 in damages plus $585,000 for her apartment under a consent decree announced by federal prosecutors.
The consent decree announced Monday resolves a dispute between Meril Lesser and the board of the Rutherford, a 175-unit cooperative apartment building where Lesser lived with her parrots Layla, Ginger and Curtis.
Lesser purchased an apartment at the Rutherford in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood in 1999 and moved into it with her birds.
Neighbor Charlotte K...
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