Not-in-my-back-yard selfishness has hit a new low, as residents at an Upper East Side co-op on East 90th street have organized a petition to remove a 5G wireless tower, per NBC 4 New York.

The folks at The Chelsea co-op claim it’s not the impact on their view or apartment resale values, but their health. Sure.

Efforts to improve cell service, especially in underserved areas, have three-story 5G towers springing up across the city; plans call for some 2,000 in all. The city as a whole benefits, and there’s no right not to have a somewhat unsightly structure go up on your block.

So the NIMBY crowd reached for the discredited old chestnut that cellular “radiation” might somehow pose a health threat, no matter that the brain-cancer theory got debunked long ago.

Other than a spat of Internet hysteria in early COVID, the two years since the rollout of 5G haven’t brought a whiff of news about health problems — and you know the modern media would be all over the least rumor. (Imagine the clicks!) The city’s Office of Technology and Innovation says the towers and 5G tech are safe.

If this petition stalls a single tower for a single day, it’s just another sign of how insanely NIMBY-friendly New York’s laws have become.