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!
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Someone was trying to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz but only the couch fell from the sky? No?
No idea but isn’t that a danger to pedestrians???
A very large bird is building a nest.
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.
Wow, that’s a real hazard. Especially with the high winds that we’ve been having over the past week.
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.
Some say it’s just a couch in a tree, others look at it as a ready to move in penthouse apartment.
could be the start of a treehouse.
Someone is building a furnished treehouse perhaps?
Hmmm…maybe someone just saw “The Hangover” for the first time….
Maybe they’re building a treehouse around it. Gotta start somewhere!
Obviously psychopathic person(s) with access to upper flooors
Rats?
The kitchen sink is just out of view…
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.
I think it blew off a patio in the last storm
If that’s the case, it is scary. People don’t secure even lighter things before the storm.
Inspired by the shelters down the block, where all kinds of stuff is tossed out windows?
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.
We live across from two projects and the residents throw stuff out the window all the time! Nobody does a darn thing.
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.
Bet that couch will go for $2,000 a month. Way to keep people in the city!
Perhaps bed bugs transported it
It’s an art installation
This situation is couched in mystery.
… Helen for the win!!
very New Yorker mag. well done.
Air BnB?
brilliant
Someone pushed it out a window.
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!
DEBlASIO solving the homeless problem..penthouse living!
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.
Maybe just a flyer from Futonland?
It is the latest in Air BnB offerings?
Those bedbugs can drive you nuts.
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.
Someone tossed it out the window and it landed in the tree.
Sofa, another unsolved mystery. But it chaired me up!
Maybe 🎅 santa was moving and dropped it.😁😁
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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.
Somebody took “Honey, please throw out the couch!” quite literally.
Preparing for the next Super Moon?
Courtesy of the Sofa King
Sofa, so good!
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.
Out a window? Just a guess
It’s the couch of damocles
Air BnB? New Yorker material. I am still guffowing!
I think it’s just a flyer from Futonland across the street.
Calm down everyone!
If it is there for 3 days (from Friday), there’s definitely nothing to do with zombies.
Big Bird making a comfy nest!
It all started with the Honey-Do List. She threatened she’d get him off the couch one way or another. He dared her.
A bear carried it up to get away from the rats
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!