A Manhattan landlord is trying to boot a 73-year-old woman out of her $972-a-month rent-stabilized apartment near Central Park by painting her as a hoarder and crazy cat lady.

C. Gershon Co. sent Marianne Semiletov, 73, a 30-day termination notice on May 31 claiming she was causing leaks at 16 E. 98th St. by “dumping cat litter down the toilet,” living in a “dirty and grimy” apartment, and entering neighbors’ homes uninvited.

The eviction notice also accuses French-born Semiletov, a retired home health-care aide, of “anti-social behavior” — including riding the elevator “approximately 100 times per day without getting off” and following building employees around for “hours at a time.”

But Semiletov — who says she has only two cats and employs a weekly cleaning service — is suing to combat her eviction and stay in her home of more than 50 years.

In an affidavit, her lawyer Edward Kramer says he visited the two-bedroom and found the space “orderly, clean and well kept.”

“There were no odors of cats or anything else,” he added.

She and her lawyer claim the owners are taking advantage of an elderly woman so they can rent or sell the apartment at a much higher price.

Her two-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom apartment with 15-foot ceilings would rent for $4,000 a month or sell for around $1 million, according to court papers.

“If you are a 73-year-old person living on Social Security, how are you going to feel when someone says they’re going to bring you to court to evict you?”

The soft-spoken woman denied her landlord’s depiction of her as a crazy old woman as she showed The Post her clean, albeit trinket-filled, apartment.

This is not the first time her landlord schemed to oust her from the building, she said.

Two years ago she came home from visiting her sick mother to find the owners had changed her locks.

“It was unbelievable. First of all, it’s against the law,” she said.

“Sometimes I get a little upset,” she said. “My friend said don’t lose your sleep, because whatever will be will be.”