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PERVERT ALERT: PEEPING TOM ON A COLUMBUS AVENUE FIRE ESCAPE
PERVERT ALERT: PEEPING TOM ON A COLUMBUS AVENUE FIRE ESCAPE
57 Comments
9 years ago
haha it was on 69th street.
lol.
9 years ago
“haha”? You have an odd sense of humor. Or your 6. Not sure which.
9 years ago
Six?! Has it gotten that bad already?
I’m not sure that I would have gotten that when I was twelve.
Alas, for the increasing loss of childhood innocence.
9 years ago
Ahh yes that guy. If he is the same guy…..He has been doing the rounds on 69th street for about a year. A friend & I spotted him on a stoop one night pleasuring himself. The police were called. After the police interrogated my friend & I as to why WE were out at 11:30 pm they finally caught up with him & informed us “He’s just off his meds.” Our follow up found that he was taken to a hospital but no charges were brought against him because he was found to be mentally ill. And now he’s back. It’s frightening that he is accessing fire escapes.
9 years ago
Can you please let us know when this was? We live here and are totally freaked out.
9 years ago
hey, could you send a description / date? My roommate has seen/heard him twice.
9 years ago
Hello a description might help people!
9 years ago
It’s the guy that is masturbating on the fire escape. When you’ll see it, you’ll know.
9 years ago
Probably lives in the building
9 years ago
What does he look like ? Somebody opened the door to my apartment 2 days ago and looked inside . Caucasian man with a lights goat tea . I pushed the door and locked it … Scary . I live on Columbus and 72..
9 years ago
you ought to have a lock on your door.
9 years ago
You live in NYC and some man opened your door and walked in? GROW UP! I live in Little Rock AR and when I am indoors I am locked in with my ADT Security enabled. We don’t want to read about your horrid murder some day.
9 years ago
i withdraw my comment as i read you locked your door after the event.
9 years ago
Re: “…with a lights goat tea.”
O.M.G.!!!
THIS is the result of a generation that gets ALL its information VISUALLY/ORALLY (YouTube, Vine, the Comedy Channel, etc. etc.) rather than from READING.
It is, of course, “LIGHT GOATEE”!!
Now, don’t ya feel Sheepish?
9 years ago
What is your problem? You don’t comment on the topic, you just like to be sarcastic. You must be pretty insecure. You have an unwarranted superiority complex.
9 years ago
Sorry, this was posted in the wrong place. It was meant for ScooterStan.
9 years ago
This comment is a result of a generation that has never heard of autocorrect and voice recognition software.
9 years ago
Since both “goat” and “tea” are words, it would pass any spell check or autocorrect.
9 years ago
We’ve heard of them. We just don’t rely on them to do all of our thinking for us.
9 years ago
You can buy light goat tea at Fairway. I prefer mine with two lumps.
9 years ago
Don’t drink too much of those, Mark — especially with two lumps.
I hear that it can make viagra seem like a wilted cousin.
9 years ago
Long gone are the days of hanging out on the fire escape…. …Now you might get mugged on them.
9 years ago
Many people used to sleep on fire escapes and roofs, as that could be the only to escape the sweltering, stifling heat that permeated their apartments. (In the old tenements, ventilation was typically close to non-existent.)
Tragically, many fell to their deaths this way while asleep.
9 years ago
Independent, please see my comment inadvertently placed in “13” below
9 years ago
Why not go “Up on the roof”.
9 years ago
Hahahaha Sean! Good one!… Actually Up on the Roof was during the summer where it was “Tar Beach”! 😀
9 years ago
What apartment building was this exactly? i live in the area and HOW CREEPy!! guess i will be keeping my curtains closed!!
9 years ago
es you must keep your shades down. We really are in a mess on the UWS. This guy needs to be institutionalized not left to wander around with his pants doWn. The same people who give him meds Should be watching out -otherwise-why bother with meds?? And the police do nothing?? Up until this year, I loved my neighborhood-now it’s just Dirty and it smells bad and the vermin hAve 2 legs not 4. We have to speak up.
9 years ago
I’ve seen this in 207 Columbus
9 years ago
It’s when they STOP looking that you should be concerned.
9 years ago
If he’s standing on a fire escape with his pants undone, doing his “business”, grab the phone and take a pic!
How far can he run since he’s on a fire escape and how fast can he get it together since his pants are undone?
Pixel out his junk and post the photo online and/or send to the police. Make a poster and put it up around the neighborhood.
And, yes, tee hee, it was on 69th St. 🙂
9 years ago
>How far can he run since he’s on a fire >escape
What if he is armed?
>and how fast can he get it together since his pants are undone?
If a guy’s whipping it out in front of strangers on a fire-escape, what makes you think he would be too ashamed to run through the streets with his pants down?
>And, yes, tee hee, it was on 69th St.
Ah, wouldn’t we all like to turn back the clock to the days when we thrilled in humor like that (i.e., our adolescence).
9 years ago
I apologize for my levity in the comment above. Right after I posted it, I felt that I should make up for it by searching the internet for solutions for you. Sadly, I found few. Nonetheless, here they are:
1) Of course, there is mention of the age-old panacea — covering and securing the windows. But who wants to live that way 24/7?
2) A second answer was to alert neighbors — an action that has already been taken by the tenant on 69th street.
3) A third was to talk to Management about installing sensor lighting. Light deters a criminal. Also, with lights (if you’re not too frightened), you can get a view of the man and possibly take a picture.
I would be terrified to live in a building with a fire escape. That fiend would dominate my life day and night as soon as I entered my apartment — and even after he got caught.
Someone suggested that he may live in your building. That’s plausible: It would make it easy for him to reach your window — and seemingly ordinary-looking neighbors can be peeping toms, especially with illicit drugs transforming some of our citizens into monsters.
I’m sorry, since I also know that some peeping toms can become increasingly dangerous.
It’s no laughing matter, and I hope that he gets caught and permanently removed from your neighborhood *and* your mind.
9 years ago
Andrew — You’re assuming that a woman remains cool and composed at the specter of a stranger on the fire escape with goat tea and gaping trousers?
You’ve forgotten, perhaps, that goats epitomize verily and energy?
9 years ago
There’s a ton of pervs on the UWS now. Really deteriorated area filled with mysogynists and sex freaks.too many dive bars with college kids and men that never grew up.
The UWS had its heyday
9 years ago
The police? Now you want to call the police? After the vile disgusting ‘dead cop’ chants you call the cops? Please. They cant help you. This mentally ill man has rights. He cant be forced to take his meds. Are his activities worthy of a major police response? Where does he live? Is he in a shelter? Hes just a poor misunderstood mentally ill man who has needs. Right liberals?
9 years ago
Speaking of meds, do you need a refill?
9 years ago
If only what you appear to need were as simple to as acquire as a prescription refill.
9 years ago
Scratch that extra ‘as’.
9 years ago
A reader of this site must have passed this along to the local CBS station. Channel 2 devoted an entire segment on it tonight, passing around copies of the notice to horrified neighbors, and describing the easy route the perv had to the fire escape via a “garbage-stewn” open gateway. A good indication that local news is desperate for stories if something like this is deemed worthy of such breathless coverage.
9 years ago
It could also be, Bishop, that local news reads the WSR regularly.
9 years ago
i normally have a great sense of humor but I don’t understand why this story brought out any jokes. As a female living alone in the neighborhood it doesn’t seem all that funny. Just sayin’.
9 years ago
I think that the story had two compartments:
The first compartment was the report itself. I believed that we were all concerned by the event and hurting for the woman — so that is not what you’ll have to forgive us for.
The second compartment were the comments — and, forgive me — but I found the light goat tea there irresistible.
9 years ago
You’re right. There is absolutely no place in humor for peeping Tom jokes.
9 years ago
There is absolutely no place in humor for peeping Tom jokes.
Generic jokes, where the subjects are fictional
-vs.-
Making light of an actual case involving real people, such as the one that is the topic of this thread.
Quite a difference between the two.
“West60s” clearly was challenging the latter.
9 years ago
Bishop–obviously you weren’t the victim here How else can we erradicate the problem–it must be aired. We’re GLAD they featured it and showed the garbage—hooray. Maybe they’ll catch the guy and mAybe the UWS can get cleaned up. One perv sicko less. And why is thAt gate open and all thAt garbage there?Sad what’s happened to this once great neighborhood.
9 years ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean to denigrate the feelings of those who have been victimized. I hope the creep is caught and am delighted when deteriorating conditions are highlighted anywhere. Was just surprised, after reading this here, to see it featured on the evening news. I’m a former (very former) reporter and involuntarily assess the relatively newsworthiness and placement of news stories. And, D.R., I suspect you are right that local news regularly reads WSR – I figured ABC would be more likely than CBS or NBC.
9 years ago
I worked in a newsroom (network) and I know that correspondents have plenty of time to scan papers for story — which, of course, is a good use of their downtime.
Since this crime is a local problem and many people in NYC live in buildings with fire escapes, I think it’s an important story — and not necessarily a “slow-news-day” one.
I found that people working in network news were very fine, well-bred and well educated people. It’s a very competitive field, so you get the cream. Those I have known more closely all had a great sense of social responsibility and cared about others.
9 years ago
DR did you actually see the new story mentioned by Bishop?
9 years ago
Bishop – no need to apologize I saw the story on the news and agreed that it was overly dramatic and sensational. But that is standard for the news and for some (here), if you don’t respond hysterically then you are considered an unfeeling, horrible person.
9 years ago
No, Mark. I did not see the story.
9 years ago
You sure that it is not Anthony Weiner?
9 years ago
I’m sorry to hear that, Independent. I had never heard of it.
I recently viewed an outstanding video series on the entire history of our city. In addition to the role that capitalism played, it sensitively depicts the struggles that every group endured to build our beloved city. I think that it’s an absolute gem, so I’m including the link.
Happy Labor Day to you — a holiday that saw its beginnings in NYC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAl7M0Le1Kg
9 years ago
Does the series you mentioned cover the terrible heat wave of 1896? It was one of the worst catastrophes in NYC history. (And something to think of when the heat seems unbearable to us.)
My recollection of hearing essentially what is found at the following URL is what I mainly had in mind when noting the deaths of sleeping tenement dwellers from the fire-escapes and roofs that they had fled-to from the heat:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129127924
Excerpt:
At the time, there was a citywide ban on sleeping in New York City’s public parks. Kohn says one of the simplest things the city could have done was lift the ban — giving people a place to sleep away from their squalid tenements, which might have prevented many of the deaths.
Not even fans (electric) back then.
Thanks for the nice reply and a happy Labor Day to you as well.
9 years ago
I scanned the video, Independent, and failed to find mention of the 1896 heatwave. The tragedy appears to have gained prominence in 2010 with the publication of a book by Edward Kohn.
It is worth noting, on this Labor Day weekend, that most of the nearly 1500 fatalities consisted of men in their *twenties* who were literally worked to death. During their regular 6-day workweek, they were exposed to the direct sun for the entire 10-day heat spell that did not abate — not even at night.
Also noteworthy is that the very wealthy Theodore Roosevelt — our little-known police commissioner at the time — was the hands-on man during the tragedy, and the sole one to take action by distributing ice; also by visiting families in squalid tenements that could reach temperatures of as high as 130 degrees.
After this, for the rest of his life, Teddy would always consider himself a New Yorker.
9 years ago
I will check about the heat wave for you, Independent, and get back to you possibly tomorrow.
Meanwhile, since we’re approaching Labor Day, I thought that many might be interested in the series’ episode on labor in NYC. It’s heart-rending stuff.
Even with limited time, at least try to view the first two minutes where Pete Hammill talks about our duty to *honor* our immigrant laborer past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgO53m-qSE
9 years ago
I should have placed the above comment under “5” above. Sorry.
haha it was on 69th street.
lol.
“haha”? You have an odd sense of humor. Or your 6. Not sure which.
Six?! Has it gotten that bad already?
I’m not sure that I would have gotten that when I was twelve.
Alas, for the increasing loss of childhood innocence.
Ahh yes that guy. If he is the same guy…..He has been doing the rounds on 69th street for about a year. A friend & I spotted him on a stoop one night pleasuring himself. The police were called. After the police interrogated my friend & I as to why WE were out at 11:30 pm they finally caught up with him & informed us “He’s just off his meds.” Our follow up found that he was taken to a hospital but no charges were brought against him because he was found to be mentally ill. And now he’s back. It’s frightening that he is accessing fire escapes.
Can you please let us know when this was? We live here and are totally freaked out.
hey, could you send a description / date? My roommate has seen/heard him twice.
Hello a description might help people!
It’s the guy that is masturbating on the fire escape. When you’ll see it, you’ll know.
Probably lives in the building
What does he look like ? Somebody opened the door to my apartment 2 days ago and looked inside . Caucasian man with a lights goat tea . I pushed the door and locked it … Scary . I live on Columbus and 72..
you ought to have a lock on your door.
You live in NYC and some man opened your door and walked in? GROW UP! I live in Little Rock AR and when I am indoors I am locked in with my ADT Security enabled. We don’t want to read about your horrid murder some day.
i withdraw my comment as i read you locked your door after the event.
Re: “…with a lights goat tea.”
O.M.G.!!!
THIS is the result of a generation that gets ALL its information VISUALLY/ORALLY (YouTube, Vine, the Comedy Channel, etc. etc.) rather than from READING.
It is, of course, “LIGHT GOATEE”!!
Now, don’t ya feel Sheepish?
What is your problem? You don’t comment on the topic, you just like to be sarcastic. You must be pretty insecure. You have an unwarranted superiority complex.
Sorry, this was posted in the wrong place. It was meant for ScooterStan.
This comment is a result of a generation that has never heard of autocorrect and voice recognition software.
Since both “goat” and “tea” are words, it would pass any spell check or autocorrect.
We’ve heard of them. We just don’t rely on them to do all of our thinking for us.
You can buy light goat tea at Fairway. I prefer mine with two lumps.
Don’t drink too much of those, Mark — especially with two lumps.
I hear that it can make viagra seem like a wilted cousin.
Long gone are the days of hanging out on the fire escape…. …Now you might get mugged on them.
Many people used to sleep on fire escapes and roofs, as that could be the only to escape the sweltering, stifling heat that permeated their apartments. (In the old tenements, ventilation was typically close to non-existent.)
Tragically, many fell to their deaths this way while asleep.
Independent, please see my comment inadvertently placed in “13” below
Why not go “Up on the roof”.
Hahahaha Sean! Good one!… Actually Up on the Roof was during the summer where it was “Tar Beach”! 😀
What apartment building was this exactly? i live in the area and HOW CREEPy!! guess i will be keeping my curtains closed!!
es you must keep your shades down. We really are in a mess on the UWS. This guy needs to be institutionalized not left to wander around with his pants doWn. The same people who give him meds Should be watching out -otherwise-why bother with meds?? And the police do nothing?? Up until this year, I loved my neighborhood-now it’s just Dirty and it smells bad and the vermin hAve 2 legs not 4. We have to speak up.
I’ve seen this in 207 Columbus
It’s when they STOP looking that you should be concerned.
If he’s standing on a fire escape with his pants undone, doing his “business”, grab the phone and take a pic!
How far can he run since he’s on a fire escape and how fast can he get it together since his pants are undone?
Pixel out his junk and post the photo online and/or send to the police. Make a poster and put it up around the neighborhood.
And, yes, tee hee, it was on 69th St. 🙂
>How far can he run since he’s on a fire >escape
What if he is armed?
>and how fast can he get it together since his pants are undone?
If a guy’s whipping it out in front of strangers on a fire-escape, what makes you think he would be too ashamed to run through the streets with his pants down?
>And, yes, tee hee, it was on 69th St.
Ah, wouldn’t we all like to turn back the clock to the days when we thrilled in humor like that (i.e., our adolescence).
I apologize for my levity in the comment above. Right after I posted it, I felt that I should make up for it by searching the internet for solutions for you. Sadly, I found few. Nonetheless, here they are:
1) Of course, there is mention of the age-old panacea — covering and securing the windows. But who wants to live that way 24/7?
2) A second answer was to alert neighbors — an action that has already been taken by the tenant on 69th street.
3) A third was to talk to Management about installing sensor lighting. Light deters a criminal. Also, with lights (if you’re not too frightened), you can get a view of the man and possibly take a picture.
I would be terrified to live in a building with a fire escape. That fiend would dominate my life day and night as soon as I entered my apartment — and even after he got caught.
Someone suggested that he may live in your building. That’s plausible: It would make it easy for him to reach your window — and seemingly ordinary-looking neighbors can be peeping toms, especially with illicit drugs transforming some of our citizens into monsters.
I’m sorry, since I also know that some peeping toms can become increasingly dangerous.
It’s no laughing matter, and I hope that he gets caught and permanently removed from your neighborhood *and* your mind.
Andrew — You’re assuming that a woman remains cool and composed at the specter of a stranger on the fire escape with goat tea and gaping trousers?
You’ve forgotten, perhaps, that goats epitomize verily and energy?
There’s a ton of pervs on the UWS now. Really deteriorated area filled with mysogynists and sex freaks.too many dive bars with college kids and men that never grew up.
The UWS had its heyday
The police? Now you want to call the police? After the vile disgusting ‘dead cop’ chants you call the cops? Please. They cant help you. This mentally ill man has rights. He cant be forced to take his meds. Are his activities worthy of a major police response? Where does he live? Is he in a shelter? Hes just a poor misunderstood mentally ill man who has needs. Right liberals?
Speaking of meds, do you need a refill?
If only what you appear to need were as simple to as acquire as a prescription refill.
Scratch that extra ‘as’.
A reader of this site must have passed this along to the local CBS station. Channel 2 devoted an entire segment on it tonight, passing around copies of the notice to horrified neighbors, and describing the easy route the perv had to the fire escape via a “garbage-stewn” open gateway. A good indication that local news is desperate for stories if something like this is deemed worthy of such breathless coverage.
It could also be, Bishop, that local news reads the WSR regularly.
i normally have a great sense of humor but I don’t understand why this story brought out any jokes. As a female living alone in the neighborhood it doesn’t seem all that funny. Just sayin’.
I think that the story had two compartments:
The first compartment was the report itself. I believed that we were all concerned by the event and hurting for the woman — so that is not what you’ll have to forgive us for.
The second compartment were the comments — and, forgive me — but I found the light goat tea there irresistible.
You’re right. There is absolutely no place in humor for peeping Tom jokes.
Generic jokes, where the subjects are fictional
-vs.-
Making light of an actual case involving real people, such as the one that is the topic of this thread.
Quite a difference between the two.
“West60s” clearly was challenging the latter.
Bishop–obviously you weren’t the victim here How else can we erradicate the problem–it must be aired. We’re GLAD they featured it and showed the garbage—hooray. Maybe they’ll catch the guy and mAybe the UWS can get cleaned up. One perv sicko less. And why is thAt gate open and all thAt garbage there?Sad what’s happened to this once great neighborhood.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to denigrate the feelings of those who have been victimized. I hope the creep is caught and am delighted when deteriorating conditions are highlighted anywhere. Was just surprised, after reading this here, to see it featured on the evening news. I’m a former (very former) reporter and involuntarily assess the relatively newsworthiness and placement of news stories. And, D.R., I suspect you are right that local news regularly reads WSR – I figured ABC would be more likely than CBS or NBC.
I worked in a newsroom (network) and I know that correspondents have plenty of time to scan papers for story — which, of course, is a good use of their downtime.
Since this crime is a local problem and many people in NYC live in buildings with fire escapes, I think it’s an important story — and not necessarily a “slow-news-day” one.
I found that people working in network news were very fine, well-bred and well educated people. It’s a very competitive field, so you get the cream. Those I have known more closely all had a great sense of social responsibility and cared about others.
DR did you actually see the new story mentioned by Bishop?
Bishop – no need to apologize I saw the story on the news and agreed that it was overly dramatic and sensational. But that is standard for the news and for some (here), if you don’t respond hysterically then you are considered an unfeeling, horrible person.
No, Mark. I did not see the story.
You sure that it is not Anthony Weiner?
I’m sorry to hear that, Independent. I had never heard of it.
I recently viewed an outstanding video series on the entire history of our city. In addition to the role that capitalism played, it sensitively depicts the struggles that every group endured to build our beloved city. I think that it’s an absolute gem, so I’m including the link.
Happy Labor Day to you — a holiday that saw its beginnings in NYC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAl7M0Le1Kg
Does the series you mentioned cover the terrible heat wave of 1896? It was one of the worst catastrophes in NYC history. (And something to think of when the heat seems unbearable to us.)
My recollection of hearing essentially what is found at the following URL is what I mainly had in mind when noting the deaths of sleeping tenement dwellers from the fire-escapes and roofs that they had fled-to from the heat:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129127924
Excerpt:
Not even fans (electric) back then.
Thanks for the nice reply and a happy Labor Day to you as well.
I scanned the video, Independent, and failed to find mention of the 1896 heatwave. The tragedy appears to have gained prominence in 2010 with the publication of a book by Edward Kohn.
It is worth noting, on this Labor Day weekend, that most of the nearly 1500 fatalities consisted of men in their *twenties* who were literally worked to death. During their regular 6-day workweek, they were exposed to the direct sun for the entire 10-day heat spell that did not abate — not even at night.
Also noteworthy is that the very wealthy Theodore Roosevelt — our little-known police commissioner at the time — was the hands-on man during the tragedy, and the sole one to take action by distributing ice; also by visiting families in squalid tenements that could reach temperatures of as high as 130 degrees.
After this, for the rest of his life, Teddy would always consider himself a New Yorker.
I will check about the heat wave for you, Independent, and get back to you possibly tomorrow.
Meanwhile, since we’re approaching Labor Day, I thought that many might be interested in the series’ episode on labor in NYC. It’s heart-rending stuff.
Even with limited time, at least try to view the first two minutes where Pete Hammill talks about our duty to *honor* our immigrant laborer past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgO53m-qSE
I should have placed the above comment under “5” above. Sorry.