New York Post

ROOM WITH A ‘WOO’

Sex thru windows

- By TAMAR LAPIN and MAX JAEGER mjaeger@nypost.com

Time to get some floorto-ceiling blinds.

Condo owners in a swanky Manhattan building have become spectators to the most expensive peep show ever — as couples regularly have sex in Marcus Garvey Park across the street in broad daylight.

The flagrant fornicator­s like to mount a rocky hill — and then one another — in full view of everyone inside the 5th on the Park condominiu­m, doorman David Lamboy told The Post.

“I saw one time . . . one girl with three guys,” the 60-year-old Bronx resident said, recalling a 2 p.m. tryst he witnessed. “I’ve been in New York all my life and seen many things but not that. It shocked the hell out of me, to be honest.”

Units in the building on Fifth Avenue at 120th Street run upwards of $1 million, listings show. But the views are much like the ones that pervs used to buy in Times Square for a quarter.

“I’ve seen it over 30 times,” Sherlinda Valton, 31, told The Post. “It’s sad, because it’s a nice neighborho­od.”

A Monday survey of the park’s friskiest reach — a rocky outcroppin­g called the Acropolis — turned up a dozen condom wrappers and packets of lubricant, as well as discarded prophylact­ics, one of which was hanging from a tree branch.

Police say they are aware of the constant coitus and trying clamp down on it. They have made eight arrests for patronizin­g a prostitute and seven for public lewdness there since the beginning of the year, lawenforce­ment officials said.

The 5th on the Park condo brought additional scrutiny to the area when it was completed in 2007, according to a man who claimed to be one of the park’s public fornicator­s.

“I know they’ve been coming in for at least 20 years,” said the 50-year-old man, who did not give a name. “Before they [the building] moved in, no cops would come bother us.”

Usually, it’s people inside the city’s swanky buildings who make their hankypanky a little too visible — not the other way around.

Public housing residents in the Lower East Side complained over the summer that guests at the Public hotel were giving X-rated shows in hotel windows.

And workers at the High Line-adjacent The Standard hotel said in 2009 that they would strip down in windows facing the oft-packed park to create buzz for the hotel.

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