A provocative Upper East Side vegan who once called humans a “disgrace to the planet” is being sued by his landlord for causing a literal mayhem when he refused to stop feeding pigeons outside his building.
According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Sharon Amram’s thoughtless actions resulted in tons of guano covering the fire escape of a building on East 78th Street and the roof of a first-floor commercial tenant.
“It’s complete bullshit,” Amram, 46, told The Post on Thursday from the second-floor apartment he’s been renting since 2011.
The French-Israeli restoration artist claims that rather than feeding the birds from his apartment, he walks across the street to a nearby synagogue and scatters buckets of pricey, handmade Belgian bird food on the sidewalk – each 40-pound bag costs $50.
“Are you crazy? They don’t feed them here,” claimed Amram, who owns a pigeon called Kuku.
She also asserted that the birds were here long before she arrived, and that she was not the only one feeding them.
Her neighbours didn’t believe her excuses, nor did her landlord, who sued her, saying he had repeatedly asked her to stop serving food at the window.
“People complain all the time,” said landlord Salvatore Gaudio. “It’s not hygienic.”
He said the problem started about five years ago and he has paid fines to the city several times because of the resulting pigeon droppings.
The person most directly affected by the disaster is a small business owner who lives directly below Amram’s window, and after seeing his sunshade covered in bird droppings, he fashioned a diaper out of tarpaulin to stop the droppings from running down the escape ladder he shares with a pigeon lover.
It would cost about $20,000 to replace the awnings, which are badly soiled with pigeon droppings, he said.
“I see her feeding the birds every day,” said Tony, the owner of the dry cleaners downstairs who has run the business for 24 years.
“The health center won’t give us anything.”
He said his tarpaulin diapers get so full of black, dried pigeon droppings that he has to clean them about once a week by hitting them with a broom handle and sweeping up the remains.
Somehow, pigeons found their way into his basement, forcing him to erect a fake owl to scare them away. If you look closely, you’ll see that the fake owl is a sort of mascot for the neighborhood.
In cooler months, he used to leave his front door open, but now he can’t do that anymore because high winds send mountains of bird feathers flying into his shop.
“God only knows how many health problems I will have in the future.”
Tony didn’t think the lawsuit would amount to much: “She’ll never stop feeding them,” he said of Amram.
Amram, who was once a radical vegan, YouTube Page “If you’re not vegan, you’re simply the devil”
A former PETA activist said people should “not eat meat. [their] There is also the idea of ”throwing one’s stomach in the graveyard,” but they still see the world in black and white.
“There are two kinds of people in the world,” she said, “those who hate and those who celebrate.”
The birds are simply following their favourite humans to their homes, she says.
“They know I live here,” she said. “They’re thinking: ‘Why is she here, why isn’t she coming to feed us?'”
The homeowner is seeking an emergency injunction banning the feeding of the birds and damages of at least $50,000.
Not only is the fire escape covered in feces, but it’s also full of heavy looking statues, old gold-framed mirrors, and other debris.
The property owner said he is extremely concerned about the situation as he has a newborn baby in the apartment above.
“I’m not worried about the money,” Guadio said. “I’m worried about the safety of my tenants.”
Amram, who previously served in the Israel Defense Forces, said many of the items on the escape stairs were bird droppings and other debris. He was seen in an old photo submitted in court documents. — was recently installed temporarily.
She previously made headlines after hanging a provocative poster from her window overlooking busy Second Avenue with the message: “Destroy Gaza now” and “Kill them all” were written in red paint.On Thursday, only one small sign remained, comparing Hamas to ISIS.
“I didn’t defeat them,” Amram said. “They just fell.”
While the outside of Amram’s apartment resembles a poop palace, the inside is her own version of Versailles – if only it were a train apartment.
Amram said he has been painting, gilding and decorating the room, which is filled with furniture collected from luxury estate sales, including French tables and desks dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, for the past seven years.
She declined to say how much rent she was paying, but said units in the five-story building recently sold for $3,000 a month.
But the house isn’t all gold leaf and mirrors: Amram also shares it with Kuku, a five-year-old pet pigeon that he adopted after finding him injured and bleeding on the sidewalk.
Amram said pigeons “need help. They’re not just birds that can survive off the sky.”
“So if you hate animals and nature,” she continued, “and if you love animals and nature… stop complaining and respect nature, and stop acting like you’re better than other people, because animals are equal to humans.”
