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Sopping-mad pedestrians are getting doused with oil, eggs and liquids reeking of chemicals tossed from the windows of a Williamsburg apartment building – but no one’s sure who’s doing the dumping.
Locals in the trendy neighborhood claim they’re being “targeted” from a window at the Edge Community Apartments on Kenty Avenue, even though the bombdropping culprit hasn’t been identified.
“As soon as I was under that window, it was just like ‘splat!’” one victim of the prankster recalled, saying she was hit with a bleach-like substance while walking her dog on Dec. 9. “Immediately the smell hit me.”
The dog walker said immediately after she was splashed with the mystery fluid, an apartment window above shut and the lights went dark.
She called 911 but responding cops didn’t enter the building and couldn’t narrow down a likely culprit without more evidence, she added.
There was no formal police report made, cops said.
The resident said she suffered mild chemical burns on her neck and shoulder where the liquid managed to touch her skin.
One resident of the building was also hit by what smelled like “bleach mixed with chlorine” walking home from a workout class around 7:30 pm the same day.
“I just felt a massive amount of water fall on me… I was pretty shocked,” she said. “I looked down and the entire front of my down coat was covered in an off-white substance, and it smelled like bleach — chlorine and bleach.
“I just panicked, because first, I was shocked, yes, I couldn’t believe what had just happened to me,” she said. “And, you know, it literally came out of thin air.”
The resident immediately ran to her shower to scrub her entire body, and monitored her skin obsessively to check for any reaction to the unknown substance, she said.
“I took off my jacket, and the next morning, I could smell the bleach from across the room,” she added
The woman called 311 instead of 911 when she felt her situation was no longer a life-threatening emergency. The incident has left her on edge.
“I’ve noticed within myself, like last week, I was walking just normally down the street, and I catch myself just looking up to make sure that no windows open through anything 100% avoid that area,” she said. “And I live in the building, and as I cross the street, you know, to go home, I’m always looking at that window.”
Two Williamsburg newcomers were struck a different evening with what they described as “used cooking oil.”
On Saturday, Dec. 14, the pair were walking when a “tsunami of liquid” rained over them, they told The Post.
“The only way I can describe it is like if you’re at a water park and you feel those buckets that kids stand under… you just feel this tsunami of liquid, and I just knew it was something that wasn’t water,” he told the Post.
“t 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 got on my partner’s jacket,” he said.
The two also noted that immediately after the incident, the unit lights immediately turned off.
He recalled that he and his partner waited coated in oil on the street corner for two hours in 27-degree temps before cops arrived.
“The craziest thing was while we were waiting on the street after calling the cops, there were at least six or seven different couples or individuals that had come up to us. They all immediately knew what the situation was because they had seen it on Reddit,” he said.
Others have described various instances of having eggs, glass objects, among other random things dropped on them from the same window.
Cops did enter the apartment building, but said they couldn’t force anyone to open the door or back up the details of the attack, according to the resident. The couple ultimately filed a harassment report with the police.
When approached by The Post workers in the building said they were aware of the attacks, but wouldn’t comment. Clinton Management Company, which runs the building, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Residue was also visible on the window pane of a unit.
The victims of the splash attacks said the perpetrator should be charged with a crime.
“Fortunately, it was only my jacket that got ruined… unfortunately, is it going to take something really bad and dangerous for something to happen?” one victim said. “I don’t know, but I think that’s the case.”
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