[ConservativeStatement]

According to the article:
Baumer figured that sliding down the trash chute would get her to the building’s basement. From there, sources said, she planned to go through the cellar and enter the building’s garden, where she would be able to open a window in her own apartment and climb inside.

[livius]

Well, it could have been worse. When I was a kid in New York, the trash chute went directly into the furnace...

Fortunately for her, the old trash-burning furnaces that apartment buildings had are a thing of the past.

[cripplecreek]

Baumer figured that sliding down the trash chute would get her to the building’s basement. From there, sources said, she planned to go through the cellar and enter the building’s garden, where she would be able to open a window in her own apartment and climb inside.

I get the Mission Impossible theme in my head just thinking about it.