Oil, eggs and liquids thrown from the windows of a Williamsburg apartment building, driving crazy pedestrians, smell the chemicals — but no one’s sure who’s doing the dumping.
Locals in the trendy neighborhood claim they are being “targeted” from a window of the Edge Community apartments on Kenty Avenue, although the perpetrator of the bomb has not been identified.
“As soon as I was under that window, it was just like ‘splash!'” recalled one victim of the prankster, who said she was hit with a bleach-like substance while walking her dog on Dec. 9. “Immediate smell. I had come.”
The woman walking the dog said that soon after the mysterious liquid was splashed, an apartment window above closed and the lights went dark.
He called 911 but responding police did not enter the building and could not arrest the possible culprit without more evidence, he said.
No formal police report was made, police said.
The resident said he suffered minor chemical burns on his neck and shoulder, where the liquid managed to touch his skin.
A resident of the building also was hit by a “bleach with chlorine” smell while returning home from a workout class around 7:30 pm the same day.
“I just felt this huge amount of water falling on me… I was so shocked,” she said. “I looked down and the whole front of my down coat was covered in a white substance, and it smelled like bleach – chlorine and bleach.
“I was just terrified, because at first I was shocked, yes, I couldn’t believe what happened to me,” she said. “And, you know, it literally came out of the air.”
The resident immediately ran to the shower to scrub her entire body, she said, and monitored her skin to check for any reaction to the unknown substance.
He added, “I took off my jacket and the next morning, I could smell bleach throughout the room.”
When the woman felt her condition was no longer a life-threatening emergency, she called 311 instead of 911. This incident has shaken him.
She said, “I notice in myself, like last week, I was walking down the street normally, and I just watch myself to make sure that no windows are open from anything, 100%. Avoid that area.” “And I live in the building, and as I cross the street, you know, to go home, I’m always looking out that window.”
Two newcomers to Williamsburg encountered an isolated evening of what they described as “used cooking oil.”
On Saturday, Dec. 14, the pair were out walking when a “tsunami of liquid” rained down on them, she told The Post.
“The way I can describe it is if you’re in a water park and you feel those buckets that kids stand under… you just feel this tsunami of fluid, And I just knew it was something that wasn’t water,” he told the Post.
“It was just used cooking oil… It was in my eyes, it was in my hair, it was on my face, it ruined my jacket. It hit my partner’s jacket,” he said.
The two also noted that immediately after the incident, the unit’s lights immediately went off.
He recalled that he and his partner waited covered in oil on a street corner for two hours in 27-degree temperatures before the police arrived.
“The strangest thing was that while we were waiting on the street after calling the police, at least six or seven different couples or individuals came up to us. They all immediately knew what the situation was because they saw it on Reddit,” he said.
Others have described various instances of eggs, glass objects, and other random things being dropped on them from the same window.
According to the resident, police entered the apartment building, but said they could not force anyone to open the door or backup details of the attack. The couple eventually filed a police report of harassment.
When contacted by The Post, staff at the building said they were aware of the attacks, but had no comment. Clinton Management Co., which runs the building, did not respond to a request for comment.
Residue was also visible on the window glass of one unit.
Victims of spray attacks said the perpetrator should be charged with a crime.
“Luckily, it was only my jacket that got ruined… Unfortunately, does something really bad and dangerous have to happen for that to happen?” One victim said. “I don’t know, but I think that’s the case.”
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