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Paramedics came to the rescue of a man who had a heart attack while he was filing a noise complaint about an upstairs neighbor’s dog.
A Queens apartment dweller was nearly done in by a Shih Tzu on Saturday when his noise complaint about the dog’s clacking nails was followed by a heart attack.
Cops had just arrived to take the complaint at 2:30 p.m. when Felix Royzman, 53, collapsed in the stairwell of his Austin St. building near 63rd Drive in Rego Park, officials said.
“All of a sudden my son was falling down the stairs,” Royzman’s mom, Rosa, 75, recalled. “White foam was coming from his mouth. I started screaming and crying.”
The officers began chest compressions on the out-of-work jewelry model maker and radioed for paramedics. They then used a defibrillator and Royzman regained consciousness.
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Paramedics took him to North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital-Forest Hills, where he was recovering Saturday night.
Royzman’s mom said she and her son have lived in the apartment building for the past 33 years. For the last year, she said, they’ve been arguing with their upstairs neighbor, whose Shih Tzu’s nails click maddeningly as the dog walks across the floor.
“(The noise) is so loud and it is so terrible,” she said.
Royzman has complained to the building’s management company about the dog. But the noise got so bad for him on Saturday that he banged on the ceiling with a broom, his mother said.
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They neighbors banged back.
Outraged, Royzman dialed 311 and file a noise complaint. A few minutes later, he passed out, his mother said.
The upstairs neighbors have complaints of their own and insist they’ve done nothing wrong.
Royzman constantly disturbs them by banging on the ceiling and scaring their beloved pet, said one resident who identified herself as Rebecca.
“They complain about my dog running around,” she said. “It’s not like we have a big dog.”
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