A woman who was brutally stabbed and nearly killed by an intruder in a New York City Housing Authority complex in Brooklyn last year has filed a negligence suit against the agency for allegedly failing to secure the entrance to the building — further tarnishing NYCHA’s reputation as the nation’s largest slumlord .
Sophia Rostom, 26, was visiting a friend in the Farragut Houses at 111 Bridge Street when serial criminal Maurice Brister, who entered the unlocked building, stabbed her 14 times in the head, heart, lungs, arms, leg and buttocks while she was waiting for an elevator in the lobby on the morning of March 28, the lawsuit says.
Brister stabbed at least one other woman that day and was charged with attempted murder.
Rostom, a medical technician and mother of a young child, lost nearly half of her blood and was clinging to life after the attack, having sustained puncture wounds to vital organs.
She underwent emergency heart and lung surgeries and spent more than a week in New York Presbyterian’s intensive care unit recovering from her injuries, the suit said.