Calling me a white cop and male Karen for wanting a walkable hallway?

The text screenshots are worth the read –

So I moved last month, new apt in Brooklyn. Love the space, the neighborhood, decent rent. Three cats.

A small downside: the common hall/stairwell is suuuper narrow (3ft maybe).

My roommate and downstairs neighbor keep bikes locked to the handrail, taking up >50% of the width of the hallway. Spoke w my roommate and put polite sticky notes on the neighbor’s door, asking for a bike free hall.

My roommate obliged immediately!! My neighbor however… has been texting me over the last 2 weeks essentially refusing to do a thing. Tons of pity-me energy and passive aggressiveness. – “Sorry this is a slight inconvenience for you, hmmm 🤔”

They won’t: – store bike on the bottom floor where there is more room – store bike outside with a lock (fear of theft) – put the bike in their apartment (no space) – buy a wall mount (no money) – let me spot them $ for the mount (not comfortable)

I’m a large guy. Every day I scoot past this bike and if I have groceries/packages/coats then there’s no getting around it; we have to bang the bike up as we scoot on by.

I get it — bike storage is tricky. But it’s not on me to figure out. The bike is obtrusive and 100% violates fire code.

I emailed property management about it today, two weeks after the post it’s. Now the neighbor is calling me a Karen when all I want is to walk to my place without banging past her damn bike like 4x a day lol.

I’ve contacted property management — we’ll see if that goes anywhere.

What would y’all do?