The overpowering odor of roasting chicken has ruffled the feathers of residents living above an E. 72nd Street Morton Williams grocery store– so they’re suing to stop the fowl stench.
The board of the 1,000-resident building at 360 E. 72nd St. is says its ground-level commercial tenant is making residents sick by cooking up reams of rotisserie chickens.”
“Residents have complained of nausea brought on by the odor of the chicken 12 hours a day,” the building manager Luis Perez says in a new Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The “offensive odors” have penetrated the hallways, laundry room, package room, commercial dry cleaner, elevator, lobby and residential units,” the suit says.
“This week the dry cleaner complained that several of their customers are returning their clothes, claiming that it smells like BBQ chicken and the dry cleaner is quite upset,” Perez writes in a November email about the issue.
But the grocery store owner, Avi Kaner, told The Post his employees stopped cooking the birds when the residents first complained, over two months ago.
He says a “Smog-Hog” machine to mitigate the smells and hopes to resolve the lawsuit amicably.
The building is suing to force the supermarket to install better ventilation and for $100,000 in damages.
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