Facebook guy’s pile of... something
HOWUN-FRIENDLY! Neighbors of Facebook co-founder Sean Parker say they were given a snow job earlier this week by workers installing fiber optic cables at the billionaire’s Greenwich Village residence.
Bulldozers pushed piles of snow from around Parker’s home into the street, apparently to make it easier for them to hook up Verizon FiOS to Parker’s $20 million home, his neighbors said.
Pictures sent Thursday to online site Valleywag by angry residents show that workers turned the historic block near Sixth Ave. into a slush-filled mess — right at the time when the snow was finally starting to melt. By contrast, the area near Fifth Ave. and Parker’s luxury home at 40 W. 10th St. was pristine. An 18-inch wide trench cut into the street was visible Friday leading from the corner right to Parker’s spotless driveway.
“He should have had the class to clear the snow for all of us instead of dumping it in the street,” said Constantine Nagel, 35, an MBA student at Columbia University who lives two doors down.
In an email Friday to the Daily News, Parker said he wasn’t involved in the flaky fiasco. “I don’t even live in that house . . . and I haven’t for over a year,” the 34-year-old said. “(So) the idea that I would care about FiOS upgrades or something just doesn’t make sense.”
“This is pretty ridiculous given the circumstances,” he added.
A friend of Parker’s dismissed the criticism as a minor dustup. “Who is harmed by a little bit of snow in the street on a 50-degree day?” the friend said, noting that Parker was getting high-speed cable installed because he might sell the opulent abode.