These masked invaders really stink.
Flea-infested raccoons are running amok in Alice and David Zaslavsky’s $1.2 million Brooklyn home, chewing through wiring, terrifying their 9-year-old daughter and creating a “revolting” stench by pooping and urinating everywhere.
“One night, [the couple] woke up staring into the face of a raccoon hanging down from one of the access panels pushed open by the raccoons,” according to a Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
The problem began months ago after the city slapped a stop-work order on a neighbor two doors down at 194 Minna St. in Kensington.
The owner, Majestic Holdings, was allegedly doing work without permits, according to the city Buildings Department.
The company left the house, which has been vacant for over a year, in a state of disrepair, with “numerous holes . . . to the outside,” the Zaslavskys said in court papers.
An exterminator found the critters were entering through 194 Minna, then creeping through the connected houses and ending up in the Zaslavskys’ two-story home.
Neighbors said raccoons are a common sight outside.
“I seen them,” said Justice Devine, 26. “There’s four babies and a mom. I think she just had them or whatever. I hear them at night time — you’ll hear them, running through the backyard and everything.”
But the critters have apparently taken a shine to the Zaslavsky homestead, and they can routinely be heard “clawing at the walls trying to gain access,” the family said in the legal filing.
Their home “continues to inhabit scores of raccoons . . . destroying the property while urinating and defecating.”
Their child “is terrified of sleeping in her own bed because she hears the raccoons above her room every night,” the couple contends.
Mordechai Gross, owner of Majestic Holdings, allegedly refuses to address the problem — unless neighbors agree not to complain to the city about his renovations, according to the lawsuit.
“Being that you guys made it very clear that you do not want me to build without permits, and being that I don’t yet have the final go-ahead and sign-off on my permits from the DOB, I will not go ahead and do anything,” he told them, they claim in legal papers. “Unless I am guaranteed from all the neighbors that you guys will stop harassing me and calling the DOB, I will not be able to help until I have the full sign-off. Hope this is clear enough.”
The family, who declined comment to The Post, wants a judge to order Gross to remove the raccoons, close up the entry points, reimburse them for money they paid exterminators, and pay unspecified damages.
A lawyer for Majestic Holdings denied the allegations and said it was not possible for raccoons to go from one home to another — and provided a video purportedly showing a raccoon scurrying along a fence and directly into the rear of the Zaslavsky home.
“There’s a brick wall that was built when the houses were built and there’s no way any raccoon went through from this house to that,” said attorney Yair Bruck.
Bruck claimed the neighborhood has been overrun by raccoons for years, thanks to nearby Greenwood Cemetery.
“The ultimate party at fault is maybe the cemetery. That’s where the real problem is from, it’s not us,” he said.