Facebook co-founder Sean Parker upset his Greenwich Village neighbors Thursday night by plowing snow into the middle of the street so he could have super fast internet access.
The billionaire entrepreneur reportedly hired a work crew to plow the snow into the middle of West 10th Street so he could drop Time Warner Cable for better service, a source told Gawker's Valleywag.
Parker’s desire for FiOS was so great that he was willing to upset the fragile relationships most New Yorkers share with each other in such close quarters. He is also said to have paid to have the snow shoveled into the road up to his house, but then stopped short.
- Sean Parker is said to have had the snow plowed into the street to make room for a Verizon crew to instal FiOS at his $20million West Village home
- West 10th Street is covered in snow towards Fifth Avenue away from the home, but has bare pavement towards Sixth Avenue to the west
Clear path: A worker was seen Friday morning shoveling snow in front of Parker's 10th Street home as the street was covered in snow
Careless: The snow was piled into the road without any care for neighbors or drivers
High and dry: Sean Parker, pictured at the 2012 SXSW Music Festival, reportedly had the snow cleared to make way for a Verizon crew
The snow was pushed into and up the narrow one-way street away from Parker's home to provide a Verizon crew space to hook up his $20million dollar pad with faster internet access than cable could provide, the source said.
Pictures show a clear disparity in the snow cover leading traffic east towards Fifth Avenue from Parker’s six bedroom, seven-and-a-half bath palace and the bare pavement west towards Sixth Avenue.
The brazen move comes as New Yorkers have been suffering through the one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recorded history due to the Polar Vortex.
Central Park has already received 56.6 inches of snow already, with nearly half falling this month alone, according to the National Weather Service. This winter is already into the top five snowiest in history.
The city has a realistic shot at reaching the all-time record of 75.6 inches set during the winter of 1994-95 with another month-and-a-half of realistically cold enough weather for winter storms.
All clear: Orange cones and a lack of snow mark the front of the home that Facebook built
Infuriating: Neighbors are said to be furious at parker's lack of regard for their safety by piling the snow into the middle of the busy, narrow street
Fantasy wedding: Parker's lavish wedding to Alexandra Lenas took place in a California redwood forest
A Verizon spokesperson declined to speak about the matter to Valleywag, and Sean Parker did not immediately return a MailOnline message seeking comment.
Parker potentially tossing snow into the street for his own convenience isn’t the first stunt that has furrowed more than a few eyebrows.
He and wife Alexandra Lenas were married last year in a lavish ‘Lord of the Rings’-themed wedding ceremony in the middle of a California redwood forest that cost the Napster co-founder several million dollars.
Before: The redwood forest as it was prior to Parker's wedding
Under construction: Fauna was removed from the forest floor, leaving only the towering redwoods behind
The bridge to destruction: Parker's wedding planners significantly modified the forest, even building a stone bridge
Destroyed: Some of the work even damaged the protected redwood trees - leading to millions in fines
The wedding featured a cottage, fake ruins, waterfalls, staircases and a huge dance floor near iconic redwoods and a stream with threatened steelhead trout.
Environmental damage caused by the event cost Parker another $2.5million paid to the California Coastal Commission to settle fines related to building the movie set-like wedding without proper permits.
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