NARRATOR: Now to Queens, New York,
where lifelong resident Joseph Aspromonti lives
in a nice little home, only a quick train
ride away from the Big Apple.
I've lived in this neighborhood all my life,
but I moved into the house that I'm currently
living in back in 2014.
The neighborhood that I live in is row houses,
which is common in Queens.
I get along with everybody on the block.
It's a pretty tight knit community,
but small, kind of off the beaten path, which is nice.
NARRATOR: Shortly after moving into his new home,
Joseph discovers that one neighbor has a mouth as tough
as the streets of New York itself.
JOSEPH: I was warned by the people that previously owned
the house that the lady next door was a little aggressive,
and she might come out and yell at me.
My first experience with her was when I was in my driveway
with my garage door open.
She started screaming about my garage door being open,
somehow, would make her house cold.
WOMAN: Close your [bleep] door.
JOSEPH: What for?
It's [bleep] cold.
JOSEPH: That's all right.
I'm warm.
I'm cold next door.
Close that [bleep] door.
JOSEPH: The houses are attached, but there
is a big giant cinder block wall between my garage
and her garage.
And there's no way that having my garage door open
would make her house cold.
What does my door open have to do--
[bleep] yourself and drop dead.
JOSEPH: She does have that one motto
that she keeps going back to, that F yourself and drop dead.
[bleep] yourself and drop dead.
JOSEPH: In that order?
I guess I couldn't drop dead and then go [bleep] myself.
It wouldn't work.
JOSEPH: All right.
[bleep] myself and then drop dead.
This seems to be her go-to.
NARRATOR: As the years go by, Joseph's neighbor
shows no sign of slowing down, quickly flying off the handle
at the smallest things.
Take that ladder off my property!
JOSEPH: No.
Yes.
Take that ladder off my property.
JOSEPH: It's not on your property.
NARRATOR: Even something as simple
as a line on the curb from the city is enough to set her off.
JOSEPH: What happened to the curb?
JOSEPH: She's just pissed off at the world, I guess.
She just doesn't like anybody.
I get the brunt of it because I happen
to live next door to her, but she's this way with everybody
in the neighborhood.
Down the block, across the street.
Just people driving by.
And she will unleash her wrath on anybody.
Get the [bleep] out!
There are times that I worry about her safety
just because of the way she acts with people.
Get the [bleep] out of my driveway.
In one of these episodes--
--the police were actually called, not by me.
What happened was one of the cars pulled over
in her driveway while she was sweeping,
and that didn't sit well with her.
So she started screaming at them.
Get the [bleep] out of my driveway.
JOSEPH: And then she took a broom
and she started smacking the roof of his car
and started making dents in it, so bad that he actually
called the cops on her.
[bleep] yourself and drop dead.
And when the cops came, I had to intervene.
I just went over to the cops and I said, listen, she's upset.
So if you don't mind, if you would just
let her kind of slide on this, that it would be great,
and they did.
I don't give a [bleep] where you live.
JOSEPH: The past couple of years, she has been very quiet
and to herself.
I believe she's also, maybe, not in the best of health
now that she's getting older and realizes
she may have to someday rely on her neighbors for help.
And if that were ever the case, I would be there to help her,
because she is a person and I wouldn't let her go down.
Do you want a hot chocolate?
[bleep] yourself and drop dead.
JOSEPH: All right.