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Stuyvesant Town's landlord can't get information about their fake "no photos" and "no furniture dumping" rules to their residents but they sure are efficient with eviction notices! A Stuy Town resident was just served these love letters from Tishman Speyer who are evicting them for back rent. Perhaps the tenants couldn't afford roach traps, rat poison, Quell, and rent in this tough economy.

Stuyvesant Town, New York City's most infamous landfill, continues to show the world what a luxurious palace it is! A Sty Spy sent in this photo of more furniture abandoned by ex-Stuy Town residents as they made the great escape from the financially troubled compound.

Last week Tishman Speyer began posting threatening stickers in their buildings warning residents they will be prosecuted if caught dumping furniture, an initiative nobody is taking seriously.

"This dead squirrel has been in playground 6 on the 14th Street loop for at least two days.  Security has been told at least twice including yesterday and again this morning. If the weather holds up I will try to remember to go over and look again towards the end of the day."

Stuyvesant Town residents lucky enough to escape Tishman Speyer's residential real estate failure are flipping their former landlord the bird by dumping their unwanted furniture all over the complex, ignoring Tishman Speyer's new "No Furniture Dumping" rule.

Last week Lux Living told you about a new "rule" Stuyvesant Town management made tenants aware of via bio-hazard colored stickers that read "No furniture dumping, violators will be prosecuted."  In two years Tishman Speyer has turned the middle-class housing complex, which once had a lengthy list of people waiting to move in, into a transient community which tenants now cant wait to get out of! The large transient community is leaving behind a lot of furniture which is causing a problem for the landlord. Their response is to penalize the tenants, though the ill conceived plan doesn't take into account that the tenants have moved out, making it difficult to prosecute.

Aside from the stickers, Tishman Speyer provided their tenants with no further information about the rules or what the procedure is to have furniture removed until local paper Town & Village called to inquire.

"Tishman Speyer can kiss my ass," says Bridgette Briggs, a tenant moving out of Stuyvesant Town. "They rented me an apartment they knew had bed bugs and now they want me to pay to have my furniture thrown out? They're lucky I don't burn it in front of their leasing office."

Stuyvesant Town residents are calling out sick from work in record numbers, using the complex's possible West Nile outbreak as an excuse to take time off of work. New York City's recent bout of excessive rain coupled with the property's insistence on running their sprinklers twice daily have left most of Tishman Speyer's problematic Stuy Town drenched in water.

Lawns, playgrounds, and planters are full of standing water which create a perfect storm for breeding mosquitos that carry the potentially deadly virus. Residents brave enough to lay on the muddy Oval lawn to sunbath are coming down with high fevers that frequently result in trips to the emergency room giving some an excuse to call out sick for work. "My roommate had to go to the ER after she got that awful Oval mud on her the other day," says Jasmin Jamesson, a resident of 19 Stuyvesant Oval. "I totally called out sick from work. I told them I lived in Stuy Town and they insisted I stay home. They know all about this place."

Residents have taken to Facebook and Twitter to tell others residents to use the West Nile outbreak as an excuse to get some time off of work. "Before I could even tell HR what was wrong with me they told me to stay away from the office," says Amber Ambermyer, a resident at 449 East 14th Street. "They know all about the rats, the roaches, the spiders, and bed bugs in Stuy Town from the photos I showed them on Facebook. They don't want to take the risk of me bringing any vermin or airborne viruses to work. I went to Coney Island."

When asked for comment on the West Nile virus scare, Tishman Speyer spokesman, Bud Perrone said, "Get some Deep Woods Off! and grow a pair."

Stuyvesant Town residents brave enough to sunbath in what was once the Oval lawn are coming down with a mysterious condition known as 'Oval fever'. The mud-skipping tenants are finding large welts and red discoloration on their arms and legs in addition to raging fevers after exposing themselves on the complex's swamp-like lawns.
   
Beth Bigbone and her friend Rachel Heft both caught Oval fever after sunning themselves in the putrid park yesterday afternoon. "There's not much grass left so we threw a blue tarp down on the mud to get some sun," Beth tells us. "When we got home we noticed these large red patches on our skin and some sort of bug bites. Later I went to the ER when my fever hit 104 degrees. They said it looked like West Nile virus but couldn't be sure without more tests."

Another resident came down with a fever after she spent an afternoon reading a book by the fountain. "My chest was really tight. I thought I might have breathed in too much of the chlorinated water coming from the fountain," the tenant says, asking to remain anonymous. "But my husband noticed a swarm of mosquitoes in a nearby planter that was full of water. He told security what had happened and they said, 'what do you want us to do?'"

The non-stop rain New York City has experienced in the month of June, combined with Stuyvesant Town's disinterest in taking care of the lawn, has left the park looking like a large, muddy puddle. The water logged lawn is a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes that are known to carry the West Nile Virus.  Symptoms of the disease include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis. It is estimated that approximately 1 in 150 persons infected with the West Nile virus will develop a more severe form of disease.

Residents insistent on enjoying the brief moments of sun in the park must bring lounge chairs, tarps, and in one case, a large piece of plywood to lie down on due to the bug-ridden mud. "It's really gross over there," says Miss Bigbone speaking of the Oval. "It reminds me of that muddy Woodstock concert. Not the old one, the one in the '90s where everyone got raped."

A Stuyvesant Town resident makes the most of her bleak surroundings by relaxing in a puddle.