5G Towers Suddenly Appear In NYC

Upper East Siders Stunned by 5G Tower Suddenly Installed Outside Their Windows

Upper East Site Staff

Two-and-a-half years ago, City leaders applauded themselves for bringing an ‘equitable expansion of 5G mobile service’ to the five boroughs. Now, the Upper East Side is getting a look at what that actually means: a large tower, packed with 5G transmission equipment — some of it even requiring a radio frequency radiation warning — suddenly installed atop a streetlight on a sleepy Yorkville block, right outside residents’ windows.

“The only notification that we received was that the streetlight was being repaired,” said Chelsea, a resident at Gracie Gardens— a co-op building located on East 90th Street between York and East End Avenue, across from Asphalt Green — who asked we not publish her last name. 

“There are over 300 units in our building and we’re all against this antenna,” she added.

On Saturday, October 1st, telecommunications technicians were seen installing the transmission hardware in a large grey cylinder and a separate grey box on the streetlight, which stands just nine feet in front of Gracie Gardens. 

“It’s less than 10 feet from my five month old son’s nursery, and it’s less than 10 feet from a resident in our building’s home with a pacemaker,” Chelsea says.

“He contacted the medical device company and was advised to stay nine feet away from the pole at all times,” she added.

For Virginie Glaenzer, who lives on the co-op’s third floor, that means the 5G equipment is right outside her living room window. 

“The funny thing is that there was a sticker on top of that box that says careful,” Glaenzer told Upper East Site on Thursday, “someone came and they removed the sticker.”

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