I recently noted a bottle/can collector -- the kind you often see fishing in garbage cans -- come into the lobby of our modern (1988), full-service condo building in a nice neighborhood bordering Central Park, carrying a huge garbage bag full of bottles and cans. He greeted the security-desk person and proceeded to our two compactor rooms to pull out cans and bottles from our recycling bins.

Finding this unusual, I contacted the board and the on-site Tudor Realty manager. The board -- and we have a generally good one -- responded quickly and said they'd investigate. The manager also responded, and shortly afterward said the man is the live-in boyfriend of a resident, and that the security desk knows him and it's OK for him to fish out cans/bottles.

I responded by asking whether the residents of our three-building complex generally knew about this, and whether she thought it was OK for someone to bring refuse from other buildings, public trash cans, etc. through our lobby and hallways. It's been two days with no response from her.

Has anybody else run across something like this? What do you think about the building manager being OK with someone hauling outside garbage through our building? Am I being oversensitive, and do other buildings allow bottle/can collectors to bring their bags through the lobby and go through their recyclables? I don't want to make enemies in the building, but this seems less than professional of our Tudor manager.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?