File under “ew ew EEEEEW this is so NASTY!”:
(Pictured: 269 Prospect Place, a building from which garbage has allegedly been thrown.)
After 200 years on the “out” list, throwing garbage out of your window is once again “IN” in Prospect Heights! Here’s a sampling of some items that the upstairs neighbors have pitched onto Vanilla’s windowsill: “dirty napkins, used paper plates, dirty toilet paper(!!!), dirty underwear, tank tops, mouse traps (the glue kind), dirty Q-tips, hair clumps …and other assorted objects. “
This is not an isolated incident, as the 19 posts in this Prospect Heights Message Board thread suggest. For example, here’s sje describing her neighbor’s year-round “diaper tree”:
“…someone from the big building next to me threw out of their window a plastic bag containing baby clothing and dirty, used diapers, which got caught up in the huge tree straddling our backyards…”
… and 11238 writes: “I live next door to 269 Prospect Place [Google Satellite Map] and people throw crap out of their windows all the time. It’s disgusting to have to pick up other people’s trash in my own yard.”