Her apartment was a bloody mess.
A Central Harlem woman’s living situation turned into a scene out of “The Shining,” with blood running down her walls and from her ceiling after her upstairs neighbor died and was left to rot for at least three days.
“I was lost for words,” said disgusted resident Elizabeth Parker. “This is like a real horror movie.”
The nightmare on West 116th Street began five days before Halloween.
The 35-year-old receptionist came from walking her dog to find a medium-sized puddle of blood on the floor, while a red stream trickled down the wall, a video shared with the Post showed.
A foul stench flooded the room.
“I don’t know what’s in the ceiling, I don’t know what I’m breathing in,” said the irate tenant.
Parker called the police, who found her 56-year-old neighbor’s lifeless body upstairs. The chief medical examiner’s office ruled the man died from natural causes, although police told Parker’s former gal pal they estimated he had been dead for “about three, four days” and his dog “had started to eat” the corpse.
Central Harlem resident, Elizabeth Parker, said that blood ran from her ceiling after her upstairs neighbor died, and was left in the apartment for three days. Helayne Seidman“It’s already traumatizing to me,” said the ex, a 36-year-old plumber. “I have high anxiety from this and I’m not living there 24/7.”
Getting the body out of the building was a quick process. But getting the blood out of Parker’s apartment proceeded at a deathly-slow pace.
Property owners are responsible for cleaning up any bodily fluids from accidents, per the city Department of Health. Yet until the Post reached out this week to the building landlord, the controversial developer Genesis Companies, and property manager, Concord Management of New York, no one had sent a professional to sanitize Parker’s apartment.
An hour after workers finally came to remove the bloodied light fixture and clean up the stained wall on Thursday, Parker’s apartment inexplicably began flooding from the ceiling in the living room, bathroom and foyer, requiring a second visit for repairs.
“When does it end?” she asked in a video.
A Genesis spokesperson said that the building’s property manager had been coordinating with the NYPD to regain access to the upstairs apartment that authorities sealed off following the neighbor’s death. Both apartments were decontaminated, cleaned and repaired.
“We offer our condolences to the family of the deceased and regret any inconvenience for Ms. Parker,” the spokesperson said, adding that the company offered to put her up in a hotel during renovations.
Genesis, which specializes in developing and operating mixed-income residential buildings, has previously been involved in over 100 housing court cases and racked up hundreds of building violations. In 2017, it hired former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, then a state senator and former Genesis top exec, for a $ 60,000-a-year advisory role.
October’s horror show is just the latest plague to afflict Parker in her home of roughly seven years.
Her one-bedroom unit, for which she pays $904 a month and snagged in an affordable housing lottery, has been flooded multiple times, with gallons of murky water pouring from the ceiling and down the bathroom walls. A former tenant also held raucous “drug parties,” drawing junkies who often were found keeled over in the stairwell or incinerator room.
“You know what the saying is, ‘You get what you paid for,'” Parker sighed. “But nobody should have to go through this.”
Concord did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
