The residents of The Grant City Condominium in Grant City, Staten Island, are moving fast to tackle a troublemaker named Caleb King. The Board of Managers, desperate for respite, has filed a lawsuit in the Richmond County Supreme Court “seeking immediate temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to abate an ongoing, hazardous, and life-threatening private and public nuisance caused by Defendant Caleb King.”
The Board of Managers of the condo wants to restrict King’s access to the building’s common areas and prevent him from entering, occupying or moving into Unit 6R of the condominium, which his mother currently leases. The residents have allegedly put up with King’s “continuous, severe and escalating pattern of disruptive, illegal and violent behavior,” since at least May 2025.
The residents had previously attempted to evict the defendant from the building to no avail.
Caleb King has allegedly posed grave problems for the residents of the building
In the lawsuit, the plaintiff alleges several instances of disturbing behavior from King. The defendant would allegedly cause a lot of noise late at night and early in the morning, would lie “unresponsive and impaired” in the common areas of the condominium, distribute keys without any authorization, peddle drugs outside the entrances of the condo, among other charges, per the lawsuit…