New York Apartment Building Cleaner Receives Penthouse

The coronavirus pandemic has caused many individuals to fall behind on paying their rent and mortgages. Some have even lost their homes due to being furloughed by their employer. When residents at a luxury high rise apartment building in New York City learned that their cleaner for the past 20 years lost her home, they decided to gift her a two-year lease, News 18 reports.

The cleaner, Rosa, believed she was at the 2,500-square feet penthouse—with four bedrooms,  three bathrooms, and an outside terrace—to clean it when she learned it was her new home. Building residents chipped in to buy her a two-year lease and some tenants have already started making plans to extend it.

When building residents told property managers how Rosa was devoted to their safety the managers reinstated her job cleaning the building’s common areas, according to Daily Kos. One tenant told Daily Kos, “[Rosa] always has a smile on her face. She is always interested about our lives, our children, our health. She’s the real deal.”