The classiest swinger/sex club to recieve a noise complaint in the FlatIron district. (TastePartiesNYC.com)

On Reddit today, an angry letter was posted as a .jpeg regarding "Taste," a "Swingers/Sex Club Illegally Operating at 45 East 34th Street #3." The anonymous Samaritan who hung up the sign encouraged others to call 311 in an effort to shut down the "BDSM (bondage/discipline/sadism/masochism) events" that have been going on after dark, every other night of the week.

"During the day," the letter reads, "various other businesses are run out of Suite 3, including "Basha Gallery," "Bienvenue Ballroom Dance Center" and something called the "Dragonfly Body Workshop." (We tried to contact all three "day businesses" at the location, as well as the people behind Taste, but have yet to hear a response.)

We don't like to assume here at The Observer (it makes an ass out of you and your gimp slave), but it seems awfully naive of the note-writer ... sounds like Taste is running a sex operation during the day as well.

But look at how legitimate Taste is! For a sex/swingers club, but still. They've got a pretty classy website going on.

See, they even say "Not sleazy!" And they were so above board, they had their own review from an Examiner.com:

A far cry from the cheesy swinger clubs with décor that looks like something straight out of “Boogie Nights”, complete with disco balls and glitter, Taste’s parties embody a level of sophistication that simply doesn’t exist at other such get-togethers. Not to say that they aren’t wildly fun. For their second anniversary party, there were two professional pole dancers performing impressive feats while revelers mingled and gyrated to great music. There are two playrooms, separated from the main space by a glass door rather than hidden in some back room. Exposed brick and imported furniture complete the classy aura.

It seems very above-board. Maybe the neighbor is just jealous, as the Examiner piece mentions that some may "perceive Taste’s strict rules to be a bit pretentious." A pretentious swinger club? LOVE IT.

Here's the original letter as well.

We’re not going to rehash everything about every event each week as it just gets repetitive. We’ll just give you detailed info about the new parties and a summary of the regular/weekly events.

La Trapeze On Premise (NYC) Limp

When: Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat

Who: Couples only
Cost: $110/$120

Carousel On Premise (NYC) Limp

When: Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat

Who: Cpls/Singles Mon/Wed/Fri. Cpls only Sat

Cost: $120ish

Checkmate On Premise (NYC) Semi

When: Fri/Sat

Who: Cpls only

Cost: $120ish

Amantes On Premise (Brooklyn) Semi

When: Thu/Fri/Sat

Who: Cpls/Singles Thu/Fri. Cpls only Sat
Cost: $80-$120ish

Casbar On Premise (Brooklyn) Semi

When: Fri

Who: Cpls/Singles
Cost: Cpls $50. Guys $150

And as an eagle-eyed Redditor pointed out, Taste's website boasts of a "100% totally Private” space with a Moroccan-style tent VIP room, hookah pipe, deejay booth 'with an unmatched NYC Club sound system' and 'full lighting effects,' available for 'before and after clubbing' as well as for anniversaries, baby showers and adult parties."

Nothing like a screaming baby to bug the crap out of the neighbors at 3 a.m. But that's what ball-gags are for, right? No, wrong. Very, very wrong.

Upper East Side residents talk trash.

Something stinks on the Upper East Side.

According to DNAinfo, Upper East Side residents are fed up with the way the Clermont, a luxury apartment building at 444 East 82^nd Street, dumps its trash.

Building staff faced a trash tribunal at a Community Board 8 Environment and Sanitation Committee meeting last week. Residents, board members and sanitation department representatives gathered to talk trash—blaming the Clermont for the huge, messy heap of garbage bags they said often block the sidewalk on York Avenue near 81^st Street. One area resident called the garbage an “eyesore” and “an outrage.”

We completely agree with New York City's garbage collection system being gross, but how, exactly is it an outrage? Is not the sidewalk trash bag heaping system observed throughout the city?

Abraham Rill, a manager at the Clermont who attended the meeting, dismissed the complaints as rubbish, and refused to acknowledge the claim that the Clermont’s trash is any more offensive than that of neighboring buildings. Rill suggested that all garbage is unsightly, no matter where or how it’s dumped.

So why, exactly, has the Clermont been singled out? Is it really that much worse than other buildings?

The Observer reached out to the Department of Sanitation's community liaison Iggy Terranova to help us sift through the refuse. Mr. Terranova confirmed that the accumulation outside the Clermont is large, but explained trash piles of that magnitude are not unusual for New York. In a city of 8 million people, there is bound to be a lot of garbage—and a lot of complaints.

The Clermont has faced several sanitation sanctions in the past—the Department of Housing Preservation & Development has registered three violations for big piles of refuse that had been stored in the building’s private courtyard. According to HPD’s website, at least one of these violations yet to be resolved.

Though the heaps are irritating to residents and passersby, perhaps it’s time for them to take their bellyaching to the curb. After all, trash is trash, no matter how you stack it.