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UWS Mysteries: How Did This Couch End Up In This Tree?

January 27, 2019 | 3:40 PM
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Somehow a couch has become lodged some 20-25 feet up in the branches of a tree on West 95th Street near Amsterdam Avenue. Ed Park tells us the furniture has been up there for three days, with no obvious explanation.

If you happen to have an idea of what happened, let us know in the comments!

Check out previous UWS Mysteries posts here.

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Lois
Lois
4 years ago

You are the best, West Sider!

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Spence
Spence
4 years ago

Someone was trying to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz but only the couch fell from the sky? No?

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Miriam
Miriam
4 years ago

No idea but isn’t that a danger to pedestrians???

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Bruce E. Bernstein
Bruce E. Bernstein
4 years ago

A very large bird is building a nest.

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Kat French
Kat French
4 years ago

Someone “threw out” a couch… literally! I’d check to see who on the upper floors of this building had a new couch delivered three days ago.

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Mary
Mary
4 years ago

Wow, that’s a real hazard. Especially with the high winds that we’ve been having over the past week.

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Upperwestsidewally
Upperwestsidewally
4 years ago

No Wizard of Oz, no Big Bird, you can’t throw a couch that far out the window, no dangers to pedestrians – it’s above a stoop shed.
‘Practical’ joke by some local lads, if you ask me.

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Big Earl
Big Earl
4 years ago

Some say it’s just a couch in a tree, others look at it as a ready to move in penthouse apartment.

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joe
joe
4 years ago

could be the start of a treehouse.

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Karindnyc
Karindnyc
4 years ago

Someone is building a furnished treehouse perhaps?

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Lady Di
Lady Di
4 years ago

Hmmm…maybe someone just saw “The Hangover” for the first time….

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Rob G.
Rob G.
4 years ago

Maybe they’re building a treehouse around it. Gotta start somewhere!

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Street Leopard
Street Leopard
4 years ago

Obviously psychopathic person(s) with access to upper flooors

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RobRoy
RobRoy
4 years ago

Rats?

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Cyrus
Cyrus
4 years ago

The kitchen sink is just out of view…

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Steve Sayer Schwartz
Steve Sayer Schwartz
4 years ago

It’s crazy, but every once in a while in NYC, someone, rather than carry something out, they will throw it out the window. That is my guess.

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Tony Noogort
Tony Noogort
4 years ago

I think it blew off a patio in the last storm

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Jen
Jen
4 years ago
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If that’s the case, it is scary. People don’t secure even lighter things before the storm.

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UWSmom
UWSmom
4 years ago

Inspired by the shelters down the block, where all kinds of stuff is tossed out windows?

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Bruce E. Bernstein
Bruce E. Bernstein
4 years ago
Reply to  UWSmom

I live on the block with the “shelters” — actually one shelter building, and one supportive housing for veterans building. i have walked past these buildings thousands of times. i have never, ever seen anything tossed out of any windows.

The Harlem United / Bailey House Veterans Housing is extremely well run and “throwing things out of windows” would be immediately noticed, and not put up with. But this is not something the residents would do.

Freedom House, the shelter, has security guards in front. they would notice.

I think there was a case many years ago reported in the WSR of an air conditioner falling, or something. But to make it seem that this is a common occurrence is to spread defamatory myths.

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True stuff
True stuff
4 years ago
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We live across from two projects and the residents throw stuff out the window all the time! Nobody does a darn thing.

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on the block
on the block
4 years ago

Been up there since last weekend. Appears to have blown off from a terrace over the weekend in the high winds but is lodged in there. The city knows it’s there but hasn’t removed it yet.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago

Bet that couch will go for $2,000 a month. Way to keep people in the city!

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Sharon
Sharon
4 years ago

Perhaps bed bugs transported it

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K8
K8
4 years ago

It’s an art installation

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Helen
Helen
4 years ago

This situation is couched in mystery.

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Bruce E. Bernstein
Bruce E. Bernstein
4 years ago
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… Helen for the win!!

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UWSHebrew
UWSHebrew
4 years ago
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very New Yorker mag. well done.

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memy mee
memy mee
4 years ago

Air BnB?

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Mark
Mark
4 years ago
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brilliant

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Stefany Benson
Stefany Benson
4 years ago

Someone pushed it out a window.

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Mary
Mary
4 years ago

It’s actually an extremely rare endangered acer sapendacea sofa tree. Where only once in a millennium will it produce a sofa!!! A rare find indeed!

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Allyson Taylor
Allyson Taylor
4 years ago

DEBlASIO solving the homeless problem..penthouse living!

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Bill Mathews
Bill Mathews
4 years ago
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It’s way too big to pass through the widows of that building. But easily carried up to the roof via the emergency stairwell and thrown off by 2 reasonably fit men, who moved briskly to the edge and let go. That forward momentum caused the couch to land 15 feet away from the building, closer to the street and the tree, rather than drop straight down.

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Jeff
Jeff
4 years ago

Maybe just a flyer from Futonland?

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Prairie
Prairie
4 years ago

It is the latest in Air BnB offerings?

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Jane
Jane
4 years ago

Those bedbugs can drive you nuts.

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JP
JP
4 years ago

It is obvious that someone threw it from either out of a window, if it is able to fit out of those windows, or from the roof. The couch is not going to go straight down because it is not 100% solid so the wind assisted in moving it in the direction above the tree. The tree and those thick branches are obviously strong and sturdy enough to with hold the impact and hold the couch in it’s place. I guarantee that’s what happened. You may even find a few broken limbs at the base of the tree that the couch had to pass before reaching the spot where it is secure right now.

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UWSER
UWSER
4 years ago

Someone tossed it out the window and it landed in the tree.

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Emily Kitay
Emily Kitay
4 years ago

Sofa, another unsolved mystery. But it chaired me up!

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Antony
Antony
4 years ago

Maybe 🎅 santa was moving and dropped it.😁😁

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Joel
Joel
4 years ago

UWS rental available, Spacious, lots of light, great views! Hurry, won’t last long! 🙂

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Aakash
Aakash
4 years ago

It blew off in the high wind last Monday, hit with a hard bang, almost flew into a group of kids walking down the street.

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Dave
Dave
4 years ago

Somebody took “Honey, please throw out the couch!” quite literally.

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Mic
Mic
4 years ago

Preparing for the next Super Moon?

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RobbieTheK
RobbieTheK
4 years ago

Courtesy of the Sofa King

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Jonathan
Jonathan
4 years ago

Sofa, so good!

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npk
npk
4 years ago

Glad everyone is making a joke out of this large piece of furniture stuck in a spindly tree. Sure it hovering over a bit of scaffolding bur when the wind really blows hard you should see it swinging. It could easily get blown into the street, fall on a car or worse, a pedestrian. It is dangerous. I reported it to 311 and that did nothing. On the one had it is laughable but more importantly it could cause real harm when the winds pick up. Maybe a call to the police precinct is in order.

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Sharon
Sharon
4 years ago

Out a window? Just a guess

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Rodger Lodger
Rodger Lodger
4 years ago

It’s the couch of damocles

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Pat
Pat
4 years ago

Air BnB? New Yorker material. I am still guffowing!

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Jeff Kindley
Jeff Kindley
4 years ago

I think it’s just a flyer from Futonland across the street.

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3DK
3DK
4 years ago

Calm down everyone!
If it is there for 3 days (from Friday), there’s definitely nothing to do with zombies.

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Miller Sherri
Miller Sherri
4 years ago

Big Bird making a comfy nest!

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Marianne Ciccantelli
Marianne Ciccantelli
4 years ago

It all started with the Honey-Do List. She threatened she’d get him off the couch one way or another. He dared her.

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Ben
Ben
4 years ago

A bear carried it up to get away from the rats

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K. C.
K. C.
4 years ago

Come on now really you don’t know how a bunch of young adults could possibly put a couch up in a tree. A little hard work and determination, figure it out!

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