It's Monday in New York City, where David Gobaud swears it smells like "hot garbage or the subway" in his luxury one-bedroom apartment in Midtown.
His 46th-floor unit is located next to a trash compactor room and garbage chute, and he suspects that “foul-smelling” fumes are coming through an electrical outlet opening in the wall behind his kitchen cabinets.
But the building's owner, who Gobaud is suing, said no one from its management team has noticed the smell after multiple visits. The landlord is now threatening to countersue for libel over a website Gobaud created to document the alleged odor.
Here's what Gobaud is doing — without the help of an official violation notice from the city — to prove that his apartment smells.
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