‘Nightmare’ neighbor
Yard-display feud
A dispute between Kew Gardens homeowners has become a real-life horror story — as a Queens man has decorated his yard with a Halloween-like monster mannequin that has left his next-door neighbors scared to enter their own home.
“It’s gotten to the part where I can’t sleep,” said Jennifer Feldman, who is so upset at neighbor Shlomo Klopfer that she’s gone to the police over his yard display. “My daughter has nightmares about the mannequin. The whole thing is a nightmare.”
Feldman said the trouble on 147th Street began 11 months ago, when her husband asked Klopfer to remove a fence sign that read “Dead End” because it “creeped” out the couple’s then-6-year-old daughter.
Klopfer explained that he collected signs and chose not to take it down.
“I love signs, man,” Klopfer, 62, told The Post. “I collect signs.”
Things escalated from there. Feldman alleges that whenever she called 311 to complain, Klopfer added more signs. She eventually went to the cops.
But police can’t force Klopfer to take down the display, since it’s on private property and not a criminal offense.
After Feldman’s first call to police, Klopfer put up the gruesome-looking monster figure, featuring a blood-splattered T-shirt topped by a Halloween mask with stringy grey hair and bulging blue eyes.
Klopfer’s wife, Ilana, said the couple is angry that Feldman never asked for a face-to-face sit-down to settle the issue before going to the cops.
“You see a sign. Why won’t you come over and talk to your neighbor like a human being?” she asked.
Feldman said, “We just want peace. It’s not just us. He fought for decades with the woman next door. We would like an end to the harassment of our family.”