A 99-year-old Manhattan landlord died just weeks after being violently robbed of $20,000 at gunpoint during a broad-daylight heist, his heartbroken grandson revealed Wednesday while slamming crime in the city.
Longtime landlord Jose Antonio Tur died on Wednesday in hospice care after suffering a stroke, his grandson, Jose Miguel Tur, told The Post.
The eldest Tur was robbed of $20,000 in rent payments at his building at West 187th Street near Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights at 10 a.m. on Sept. 22. The masked robber was likely keeping track of the senior’s every movement and threatened him at gunpoint, according to cops.
Antonio, a former ship merchant from Cuba, worked as a porter for eight years before buying the Washington Heights building in 1997, his grandson said…