By Gus Saltonstall

Upper West Side resident Stuart Kalmenson knows all too well that the fall weather is getting colder. This winter will be his second with no heat or hot water in his apartment on West 89th Street, between Columbus and Central Park West. He will spend it in a home crammed with belongings, much of the floor invisible, after needing to move in items that he used to keep in the building’s storage lockers.

Those lockers no longer exist, like so much in this five-story townhouse where Kalmenson, 59, has lived since 2006.

For the last five years, Kalmenson has been locked in a legal battle with an ownership group led by former New York Giants football player Chris Canty, who purchased the property in 2020 for more than $5 million.

“Most people would back down, but I’m not t

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