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I'm dealing with a sickening smell coming from my neighbors apartment upstairs. I live in a two-story, 4-unit building. I think my apartment and the one upstairs from me share the flue for the vent hood, which is how the smells get into my unit.
I know they are middle eastern and I've considered the fact that they may be cooking some unusual dishes (unusual to me.) There have been smells that resembled food, on several occasions, especially on the weekends. Not pleasant necessarily, but enough of an aroma where I was pretty sure it was food.
Today the smell that started wafting in was absolutely sickening and did not smell like food. I can not place the odor. Something like sewage or rotten eggs. Very strong and pungent.
It took 2 hours to get the odor out of my apartment by opening all the windows and running the HVAC. Then the odor was still in the common foyer outside of the units for another hour after that.
I left a note for the manager.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this, was it food, or were they cooking drugs?
I think my apartment and the one upstairs from me share the flue for the vent
hood, which is how the smells get into my unit.
Those vented powered hoods are terrible because they force greasy smells into other apartments. My building recently cleaned the vents..$$$$$...and issued a strict edict: NO VENTED HOODS. You can blow the cooking smells through carbon and back into your apartment if you wish, but that's IT, nothing but air into the common vents.
They inspect the apartment every Fall and look specifically for hoods.
Today the smell that started wafting in was absolutely sickening and did not smell like food. I can not place the odor. Something like sewage or rotten eggs. Very strong and pungent.
well we have our hoarder neighbor and you could tell it was rotten garbage smell..we also have a pot smoker 4 floors down who smokes the most disgusting skunk weed ever..that stink comes up through the heating system...both are gross...I cant decide which is worse.
We supposedly live in one of the nicest co-op buildings in our neighborhood in brooklyn..HA..if this is nice I hate to know what ****ty is
In my last apartment I took out the louvered vents, wrapped them in Saran Wrap and reinstalled them airtight. No venting was better than nauseating wafts of boiling ghee at dinnertime.
In my last apartment I took out the louvered vents, wrapped them in Saran Wrap and reinstalled them airtight. No venting was better than nauseating wafts of boiling ghee at dinnertime.
geez its insane how people have to live in NYC..sealing ourselves in cause other tenants dont care what they inflict on their neighbors or themselves for that matter and what makes it worse is that it is so freekin expensive..paying lots of $$ for a ****ty quality of life..sucks
so far not smelly again yet..really so far all these calls have been useless..no agencies did anything when it was really bad anyway
I used to know a woman in Manhattan who owned an apartment in a beautiful building but she completely ruined it. She was a hoarder and also had 3 dogs and 3 cats that she NEVER cleaned up after. The stench from her apartment was disgusting. You could smell it the moment the elevator doors opened.
Her neighbors HATED her. Imagine purchasing an apartment in a luxury condo building only to have your crazy neighbor be a hoarder where you can't even breathe in the hallways.
They complained to management. Management sent her letters and even provided her with a case of cleaning supplies and air fresheners! She didn't take the hint and honestly believed nothing was wrong.
The neighbors then called the NYC Dept of Health on her as well as ASPCA. She got a citation from the health dept and had to go to court and pay a fine. The ASPCA did nothing about the animals she had.
I haven't seen her in quite some time. The last time I saw her, the apartment was still a disaster --- filthy, overwhelming stench, junk and papers all over the place, dog crap everywhere.
The president of our board admitted there is virtually NOTHING that can be done to get rid of a filthy owner/cooperator, no matter WHAT he or she does.
The president of our board admitted there is virtually NOTHING that can be done to get rid of a filthy owner/cooperator, no matter WHAT he or she does.
I guess that's why hitment get the big bucks.
LOL!! True!!
I remember one day, I went to her place to meet up with her. I didn't want to go in her apartment so I told her to just come on and let's go. We got on the elevator at the same time as someone else from her floor. You could feel the daggers this person was shooting at her!!!! I was so freaking embarassed for her!
I asked her why the person hated her? She said --- get this --- "oh because they want to buy my apartment so they can break through the wall to make their apartment bigger". ROFL!!!! I don't think so!!!!! I think they just want to buy her apartment to get her OUT of it!! Also, her apartment would probably need $150K or more in renovations just to make it pass health standards and make it liveable!
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