New Yorkers live in close quarters with our neighbors, so when the borders of our apartments shift things can get tense. While not everyone agrees about things like secondhand smoke seeping through the walls, it's safe to say that nobody is okay with a "waterfall of human waste" coming into their home. Seriously, can you blame someone for suing when it keeps raining poop on their East Side apartment?
"It’s not just dribbling down the wall. It’s torrents gushing into buckets," interior designer Celeste Cooper told the Post of the troubles plaguing her first floor apartment at 235 East 57th Street. So yesterday she filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court to try and stop the flow—which she says has poured into her living room and kitchen more than 10 times in the past three years. And those "unsightly stains" are the least of the unsanitary damage... not to mention what happens whenever she turns on a fan.
Cooper is suing her neighbor, Diane Friedman, and her condo board for more than $700,000 in damages over the falling feces. But Friedman, for her part, blames the problem on a leak in her guest bathroom that has "been like this since I moved here." Maybe time to do what many New Yorkers do and turn that extra bathroom into another closet...
