A pair of Manhattan sisters turned their Lower East Side apartment building’s roof into their own personal fiefdom, a landlord claims.
Real estate agent Hana McGrath and her sibling Rachel allegedly used the roof at 169 East Broadway to grow crops, host for-profit dinners, and as a bathroom for their dog-sitting business.
The sisters each have an apartment in the five-story tenement-style building, where the roof is supposed to be off limits, landlord CJK Real Estate said in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The two ran a pet-sitting business out of their homes without permission, and then let the pups “defecate and urinate on the roof,” the landlord charges.
When they weren’t treating the roof like a urinal, the women allegedly “created areas for dining and impromptu gatherings and charged attendees a fee,” CJK Real Estate charged.
The women also blocked fire escapes, and sublet their apartments without permission, according to the lawsuit.
Hana McGrath owes $20,000 in back rent, while Rachel owes more than $17,000, the landlord claims. They were paying between $1,800 and $1,900 a month each.
Both sisters and the landlord have been duking it out in Manhattan Housing Court, where a judge recently ordered Rachel McGrath to give up her apartment after she lost a bid to keep the space rent-stabilized.
The McGraths didn’t return messages.




