Manhattan's East 5th Street residents, caught up in an ongoing feud with Cooper Square Hotel (a trendy white media palace encroaching on the vanishing NY keep-it-real grit of the 5th Street tenements), have decided to air their dirty washing.... hanging soiled pants on a washing line mere inches from the noses of the hotel's residents. According to experts, the brown stains "were not authentic", but message was clear.

[via Curbed]

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