Two young women in New York City ingeniously devised a solution to sidestep the challenge of hauling groceries up endless flights of stairs.
Content creator @hayleylovesinstigating took to TikTok to showcase their innovative pulley system that transfers groceries up to their fifth-floor walk-up apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
A bag laden with oranges, milk, frozen food, and a dozen Poppi soda drinks was hung on a rope, extending from the fifth floor to the lobby.
Haley loaded the groceries into the bag, while her friend could be seen pulling the other end of the rope on the fifth floor, with the overlaid text reading ‘POV: girls in New York.
Two young women in New York City ingeniously devised a solution to sidestep the challenge of hauling groceries up endless flights of stairs
Content creator @hayleylovesinstigating took to TikTok to showcase their innovative pulley system that transfers groceries up to their fifth-floor walk-up apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan
A bag laden with oranges, milk, frozen food, and a dozen Poppi soda drinks was hung on the string, extending from the fifth floor to the lobby
The video has garnered overwhelming responses from social media users, particularly those residing in walk-up apartments in the Big Apple to economize on rent.
A user wrote: ‘I watched one of my neighbors take his trash out like this the other week.’
Another person who lives nearby said: ‘Caption is so real coming from a fellow LES 5th floor walkup girly.’
Many social media users tagged their friends, encouraging them to try to install a pulley system as well.
A person tagged friend and wrote: ‘You’re onto something here…next launch?’
The video garnered nearly 70,000 views and 10,000 likes within 12 hours of being posted on Thursday.
Haley loaded the groceries into the bag, while her friend could be seen pulling the other end of the string on the fifth floor, with the overlaid text reading ‘POV: girls in New York’
Despite the heart racing and legs burning from navigating the endless stairs, the content creator is not ready to leave any time soon
The Lower East Side is one of the areas in New York City where walk-up apartments are common, along with the Upper West Side, East Village, and Chinatown.
Most of the walk-up buildings have five floors, but some can go higher, reaching six or even seven storeys.
According to reports by real-estate data company UrbanDigs, more than 15 walk-up buildings in the Lower East Side have six or seven floors.
Those buildings were constructed before 1968, as the city’s Department of Buildings now mandates that constructions with five or more stories must include an elevator.
Despite the heart racing and legs burning from navigating the endless stairs, the content creator is not ready to leave any time soon.
‘We just HAD to live in the LES,’ Haley, a recent college graduate, wrote jokingly in the caption.