The New York Times reports that my former top-floor neighbor, the one who sent his workmen onto my roof on a regular basis and put an air conditioner through our ostensibly common wall, has been arrested:
"A Manhattan man was charged with kidnapping after he pulled a knife on a 63-year-old real estate agent, bound him with duct tape and put him under the floorboards of the suspect's TriBeCa apartment, the police said last night.
The floor of the apartment, which is in a renovated 1862 firehouse at 160 Chambers Street, is equipped with a trap door, Sgt. Dennis Ferber said."
The only thing that comes as a surprise is that anyone would be willing to testify against him; the only person I've ever met who had a good word for him was a onetime co-worker who had previously slung carcasses at the not-entirely-corruption-free Fulton Fish Market.
Posted by wallich at April 17, 2003 10:53 AMToday's Times has a more extensive story, which at least explains the trap door a little more innocently. (It also raises some serious questions about the structural soundness of my ex-neighbor's roof garden, but that's another matter.)