Good Fences Don’t Help Much in a Co-Op

A Chelsea co-op successfully evicted a so-called “neighbor from hell” whose transgressions included boning a homeless dude in the building’s gym:

The complaints started just four months after Davis moved into the elegant apartment complex, which occupies a city block from W. 23rd to 24th Sts., between Ninth and 10th Aves. Home to some famous names over the years, including photographer Annie Leibovitz and Debbie Harry of the rock group Blondie, the 75-year-old complex has a roof garden and an indoor swimming pool. And it has at least one very unpopular resident. “He’s a little nuts,” said an eighth-floor resident who has lived in the building 12 years. “He’d always be scavenging in the stairwell. … He had this big dog that just stinks up the elevator.”

Davis also was accused, according to court records, of sneaking a “foul-smelling” homeless man into the complex’s health club shower and having sex with him there.

He denied stealing people’s clothes, insisting he took a raincoat on the laundry room floor and planned to mail it to Cuba. He denied having sex with the homeless man, and said he was simply picking something off his back.

Bonus Point: bartelby.com’s New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy “Good fences make good neighbors” explainer.