Man Sues Brother For Turning UWS Home Into Hoarder's Den: Reports

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Two brothers are locked in a legal battle over the state of their family's multimillion-dollar Upper West Side home, according to reports.

Andrew Lindsay Cohen, of Vermont, is suing his brother James Cohen for leaving their family's West 83rd Street townhouse in a state of disarray after moving in in 2011, the New York Post reported. James has turned the $10 million home one block from Central Park into a hoarder's den packed to the brim with "papers, garbage, old possessions, boxes, other filth and detritus" Andrew claims in a lawsuit filed with Manhattan Surrogates Court.

James assumed control of a larger portion of the townhouse when the family patriarch died in 2011, the Post reported. At the time, lawyers agreed it was fair that James get more of the house because he was unable to collect on $1 million left to him when his mother died in 2007, the Post reported.

Andrew Cohen's lawsuit is demanding that James be forced out of the West 83rd Street home. In addition to allowing the home to deteriorate, James hasn't kept up on the mortgage, the Post reported.

Read the full New York Post article here.

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