New Yorker accused of tossing urine, feces at patrons of TikTok-famous photo booth next door sued for $500K

A pissed-off New Yorker hates the TikTok famous vintage photo booth that’s been set up next door to her Lower East Side home so much that she’s throwing a literal piss and s–tstorm over it, a new lawsuit claims.Zoë Lazerson and Brandon Minton, the owners of the Old Friend Photobooth, say their neighbor Maggie Trakas has officially “declared war” on them ever since they signed a lease for their booth next door to her building on the Lower East Side.Since opening in December, the one-sided guerilla battle has allegedly seen Trakas, an artist and jewelry maker, tossing a bucket of urine from her second-story Allen Street window onto a booth owner and queueing customers — “narcissistic r—-ds,” the suit alleges she calls them — and using her artist tools to paint feces along the booth’s fence and planters.She also super-glued locks and made verbal and physical threats, according to the lawsuit.“This is war!” said Trakas, just one day after the booth moved to its new home — due to its surging popularity — at 145 Allen St.

on Dec.9, the suit alleges.Calling her behavior “deranged and health-hazardous,” the legal complaint states that “Trakas will seemingly stop at nothing to derail the operation of the Old Friend Photobooth.”But Trakas told The Post that it’s all just a ploy to grab cash before the TikTok sensation, which she said draws hundreds of loud 20-somethings in a constant line around the block, loses out once the app is outlawed this Sunday.“On the weekends and over the holidays, it has been unmanageable,” the lifelong New Yorker said.“We’re talking up to hundreds of people on the line, all the same age demographic.

No one local, not even NYU.”To Trakas, the suit is just “wealthy kids from Utah who showed up in 2023” trying to “exploit” her. “This is a stunt he’s creating to extort money,” she said, adding that she “absolutely did not” throw her piss at Minton or patrons of the Old Friend Phot...