The late author paid $845.89 monthly for her stabilized Yorkville apartment at the time of her death in 2016 — in 2022, it rented for $2,950.
The apartment was warehoused until last year — when it was rented to its current tenants for $2,950, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the couple currently living there.
At the time of her passing, Lee paid $845.89 per month for a stabilized ground-floor unit in this Yorkville building.After being warehoused for six years following her passing, the unit listed for rent asking $3,150 per month.“The apartment was rented to the Pulitzer-prize winning author Harper Lee from 1967 until her death in 2016,” the lawsuit says. “Thereafter the apartment was kept vacant until it was rented to plaintiffs in 2022.
The apartment’s rent history shows that, in 1984 — when the law began requiring landlords to register stabilized rents with the state’s Division of Housing and Community Renewal — Lee paid $291.74 per month. Lee was best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.”Several neighbors told The Post that the apartment was renovated at some point after Lee’s death, but couldn’t remember when.
Lee arrived in New York in 1949 and worked as an airline reservation agent. She lived in a cold-water flat on far East 82nd Street until around 1967, when her building was razed to make room for a 20-story rental tower, so she moved across the street.
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