This is a dirty street corner.
A battered sex doll abandoned in an industrial corner of Bushwick has become a local landmark, with locals building a makeshift shrine around it.
The dirt-covered rubber spirit has been enshrined at the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Melrose Street since at least Sunday, and by Wednesday it was surrounded by LGBTQ flags, beer cans and a lit candle depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Jesus-like figure.
Chloe Peterson, 29, who lives two blocks away, told The Post that she first saw the doll while showing a friend visiting from Paris around the Bushwick neighborhood on Monday.
“She clearly had a taste of the neighborhood with this,” Peterson said. “At first, from a distance, I thought it was a homeless woman, but then I saw her arms and her fingers were bent and I realized she was a doll.”
“She immediately scared me. I felt like there was definitely a dark energy about her,” Peterson added.
After Peterson Posted the photo online In an attempt to get answers about the bizarre scene, one Reddit user revealed that the creepy dolls are sex dolls that cost between $8,000 and $15,000, and some of the models have AI “brain”“
“This girl has been plucked (you can change her hair with a wig) and beaten badly,” a user wrote. “But with a little cleaning she could resell for thousands of dollars.”
The doll, which locals say has been left in the street since at least Sunday, has since inspired the erection of a makeshift memorial across from a Pentecostal church on Knickerbocker Street, with her bare head also covered with a black garbage bag and bandana.
“It’s going to be an icon for Bushwick,” said Acurio de Leon, who lives across the street. [any] There’s already graffiti here… This is the kind of thing that only happens in Bushwick. If this was Manhattan, she’d already be taken off the streets.”
De Leon said someone had been moving the doll around in various positions. One Reddit user even noted that the doll’s head had come off at some point on Monday, saying “someone must have put it back on.”
For about an hour on the quiet street on Wednesday afternoon, a dozen passersby stopped to take photos of the doll, some of them staring and laughing.
“Hey, leave my girlfriend alone!” the cleaner said from afar.
But Peterson told The Post she wants the dolls off the streets and out of public view.
“It’s really creepy and I want it removed,” Peterson said. “I don’t know who put this doll there, and I don’t want to know.”
Peterson called the bizarre display “misogynistic,” adding that online, Reddit users had also reported people kicking the dolls.
“I can’t imagine a male sex doll in that position would be as popular,” Peterson said.
Peterson acknowledged that despite wanting the dolls to leave the neighborhood, she hasn’t asked city officials to remove them from the area because she’s “scared to get involved.”
Peterson predicts the doll will continue to be an object of perverse attention until it meets its fate in a trash dump.
“I guess because of the attention my post got, it became kind of an inside joke among my neighbors,” Peterson said.
“But I passed by her again last night and saw some strange people around, so maybe people have developed some sort of attachment to her.”
