A wave of “sex mayhem” has apparently been sweeping New York City, prompting residents to lodge an increasing number of noise complaints to a government helpline.
New York is no stranger to noise complaints — people in New York file as many as 75,000 a month — but new call data obtained by the Patch news Web site has revealed that many recent complaints arise from those disturbed by their neighbors’ late-night ventures.
From Feb. 19, last year Feb. 9, a helpline received 277 complaints about noisy sex, Patch reported.
Queens produced the most, with 103. Manhattan was second with 66, while Brooklyn produced 55, the Bronx 48 and Staten Island four.
In Cross Bay Boulevard, in Queens, 56 complaints were logged about “hippies” allegedly dressing up as Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and the Easter Bunny while engaging in coital revelry as the theme song of Velveteen Dream, a pro wrestler, blasted in the background.
“They’re still here causing a sex mayhem,” a neighbor said one day at 6am. “Thought it was too cold outside for an orgy party. Doesn’t stop this guy.”
Another Queens resident said: “For the love of God, stop these sex addicts. O to the R to the G to the Y. If you know how to spell and read that is ‘orgy.’”
In Greenwood Heights, in Brooklyn, a resident said that they had slept through natural disasters, but their neighbor’s activities were now keeping them awake.
“To get a sense of how disruptive they are, I’ve slept through earthquakes and fires in my life. I couldn’t sleep through this,” the resident wrote in April last year in a complaint lodged at 2:45am.
Someone else reported: She “makes the bed squeak as if it’s an Olympics event.”
Another said: “Ceiling shaking and debris falling sex.”
Complaints obtained by Patch also revealed that New Yorkers have been involuntarily privy to bedroom narrations aligned with current events.
On Dec. 23 last year at 11pm, for one seasonal example, a resident in East Harlem, in Manhattan, said: “Some guy is singing ‘Jingle Balls’ at the top of his voice. Another person is screaming: ‘Yes daddy, come down my chimney.’”
Last spring, when the federal government distributed COVID-19 stimulus checks as part of the American Rescue Plan, one Bronx resident complained at 12:45am: “Loud banging and moaning. Heard the neighbor saying: ‘How’s this stimmy, baby?’”
In a statement to Patch, New York Police Department spokeswoman Sophia Mason said that it took all quality of life complaints seriously.
We “will continue to monitor and address all complaints,” Mason said.
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