Trolls have taken me to task for rummaging through a dead New Yorker’s trash – but I’m breathing new life into her treasures

A little Trash Talk of haters is to be expected – especially when you’re rummaging through a dead woman’s closet.

A New Yorker named Nichole was criticized for shopping at the deceased’s thrift stores, but the trash-to-glam stylist says the critics just need to “get over it.”

“Apparently this woman died in December and they’re cleaning out her apartment,” the Upper East Side thrift store owner explained in a new TikTok video.

The inveterate junk shopper came across a pile of discarded treats that landed on a city sidewalk on Thursday.

“There’s furniture, household goods, lamps, garbage,” she enthused. “There’s so much stuff, I can’t believe it!”

But as the brunette was busy rummaging through the deceased lady’s belongings, which included a collection of chic blazers, a curious onlooker began to reprimand her for rummaging through them.

“Oh my God, the manager of this restaurant is freaking out and yelling at me for rummaging around here – he’s trying to get me in trouble,” Nichole said.

“But in New York, it’s legal to dig through trash on a public street and a public sidewalk,” she added. “So get over it.”

Nichole did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

But she is right.

Anna Sacks, the self-proclaimed “garbage seller” of the Upper West Side who traded her traditional 9-to-5 job for a life as a sustainable trash collector, previously told the Washington Post that dumpster diving is a “meditative” act of waste prevention.

Ted Rao, a Social Security and disability lawyer in the Big Apple, also advocated for the junk hunt as a positive way to help the hungry.

The 47-year-old lawyer recently took a bagel shop in Crown Heights to task for allegedly pouring chemicals on the bagel shop’s daily leftovers to prevent it from saving the leftovers for those in need.

“If there is garbage, if there is trash, we don’t just throw it away,” he told the Post.

Nichole expressed these feelings in her viral video, while also describing the reprimand she received from the outraged restaurant owner.

“She called me in desperation because she was trying to search through some of it and save it before it ended up in the trash,” moaned the beleaguered fashionista.

But the nasty insults did not stop her from fleeing the crime scene with an armful of great finds.