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Slash bust in tenant feud

By KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA and DEAN BALSAMINI Khristina Narizhnaya and Dean Balsamini

A Queens woman who allegedly spent months harassing her neighbor and landlord was arrested Saturday for stabbing the fellow tenant, police and witnesses told The Post.

The alleged attacker and the victim rented separate units in the multifamily home in South Ozone Park, where the landlord lived downstairs.

The bloody assault unfolded just before 8 a.m. when Najia M. Vaughn allegedly knocked on her neighbor’s door, began arguing with the woman inside, then pulled out a knife and cut the 31-yearold victim on the forehead, chest and leg, residents and law-enforcement authorities said.

Vaughn, 28, was charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

The accused attacker moved into the 127th Street home in May, and was referred to the property by the city’s Human

Resources Administration, said her terrified landlord, who did not want to be named.

“Since she [Vaughn] is here . . . she has been nothing but trouble,” the landlord fumed to The Post.

The woman’s erratic behavior had frightened residents for months, and the stabbing is the latest in an apparent laundry list of disturbing behavior.

The homeowner, who lives downstairs with her 7-year-old daughter and sister, claims Vaughn, who lives upstairs, has tried to set the house on fire; flooded the landlord’s apartment and keyed her car; repeatedly banged on the landlord’s and the victim’s doors; and even jumped out of her own second-floor apartment.

“The city should evaluate these people very, very carefully before they put them in private houses,” the landlord said, adding, “I am very, very scared. I am scared to leave my house by itself, that she do something.”

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