Neighbor recounts Christmas Eve slaying at Harlem housing complex

Neighbors were unfazed by the senseless killing that claimed the life of a 23-year-old man at a Harlem housing complex on Christmas Eve, saying death and violence are a part of everyday life in the projects.

“Same s–t, different day,” said Latishia, 50, a grandmother of eight who lives at the building where the murder occurred.

Latishia spoke to the Daily News in the lobby of the Manhattanville Houses on Amsterdam Ave. near W. 131st St, where on Saturday around 5:45 p.m. she heard voices shouting in anger on the floor below her, but didn’t pay it any mind.

“You tune it out,” said Latishia, who said fights and arguments are common occurrences at the Harlem housing complex.

Suddenly two shots rang out. Latishia thought it was an action film with the volume set too high.

“My husband was like, ‘That was gunshots, baby,’” Latishia recounted.

Latishia looked down from her apartment window to find paramedics gathered around a body near the building’s entrance, a medic desperately hammering on the victim’s chest.

EMS rushed the man to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.

No arrests have been made.