NYC landlord, 99, dies weeks after being robbed at gunpoint in broad-daylight heist: family

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.

Immediately after learning his grandfather was robbed, Miguel grew outraged at the lawlessness of the Big Apple.

“From the beginning, it’s like anger and disgust and like how lawless New York has become, and how justice isn’t served, like there’s no consequences on the people who commit these kinds of crimes, and how there’s no respect, right?” Miguel said. “There’s no limit as to what you see, especially with this that hit hard at home.”

“The whole bail reform laws, clearly, the policy isn’t working,” he fumed.

Antonio had fled Cuba under Fidel Castro’s communist regime, and thought “the same thing that was happening there [in Cuba] was going to happen here,” his grandson recalled.

He slammed the Big Apple as “the worst city to be a landlord in.” 

Antonio had been the target of a previous assault at another building he owns across the street shortly after bail reforms went into effect in 2020.

During that assault, a perp with a “long rap sheet” had attempted to burglarize the building, he recalled.

In September’s incident, the suspect called the elderly building owner to deliver a package, pushing his way past the gate after asking Antonio to meet him on the side of the building, according to police.

The 99-year-old got into a fight with the intruder and had his hand crushed between the door and the metal frame, causing him to suffer broken fingers.

The suspect then made his way into the basement of the five-floor, 30-unit building, forcing Antonio to lead him to the office at gunpoint to grab the rent payments stored in a cabinet.

The intruder fled the scene with a hefty wad of cash and is now in custody, according to Miguel.

Cops have not yet confirmed the arrest.

Miguel has since written to several local elected officials, blasting bail reform policies and demanding that consequences be implemented to curb crime.

He recalled his grandfather pouring every last moment of his life into working and fostering his business.

“Just the pure notion of resilience and like always finding a way, always looking for a solution to the problem no matter how it is, and never being afraid or having any loss of hope, and always pushing forward,” Miguel said of his grandfather’s best qualities.

“He didn’t think about the money, just thought about it as a way to progress. Til the end, he still worked. He put the work first, money second.”