From the Forum: Dealing With Super's Noisy Late-Night Trash Run

A Brownstoner reader (and his or her neighbors) were woken up over the weekend when the next-door building’s super made a racket while taking out trash at 2:30 a.m.

jumping in writes:

Ok, so this morning at 2:30AM at least 4 people in our building were awoken by the neighboring building’s super who was noisily removing the trash from his building. It was being done in an extremely careless manner as he threw planks of wood into the dumpster and kicked bags of recycled glass / aluminum which had fallen to the ground. In short, a veritable racket. A few of us asked him from our apartment windows if he wouldn’t mind stopping the work as it was very late (early). He responded with answers like “Be quiet” and “I’m doing my job”. Someone in our building called the police who briefly showed up but left without anyone speaking to them. At that point, I ventured next door at about 3AM to talk to the super directly. We had a 2 minute conversation on the sidewalk which ended with him flatly stating “I’m the super in this building and I’ll work whenever I want”. What should or can we do?

Beyond the request the poster already made to the super, what can be done to prevent noisy off-hours working?

Commenters have already suggested contacting the building’s co-op board or condo association. Can anything else be done? To give the reader advice, head over to the original post in the Forum.

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