Monday, February 12, 2007

my, but our standards have changed....

ok, so this from jossip, a blog from nyc......A condominium board on the Upper East Side is asking a judge to stop a newly opened Subway restaurant from baking fresh bread, claiming the building is being "inundated with strong and nauseating food odors," causing property values to plummet.

The owner of the franchise, Tae Hyun Shin, 47, said yesterday that he has tried to accommodate his neighbors, offering to reimburse them to dry-clean clothes they say smell as well as installing a $3,500 ventilation system that he says pushes the baking fragrance onto Second Avenue.

The campaign is being spearheaded by a couple who live on the third floor. They allege in a lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court that the lobby, basement, and stairs of the Waterford Condominium at 300 E. 93rd St. suddenly began smelling almost two weeks ago, after the restaurant opened.

"Defendants have failed to abate the condition, thereby damaging the health and safety of the condominium's unit owners and employees," the suit says.

omg.....health and safety issues?.......from smelling baking bread.....?are these people crazy?.....i would much rather smell baking bread than...say.....car exhaust from crowded nyc streets......they shoudl be paying subway.......

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