An Upper West Side street has been turned into a personal landfill, and locals are fed up.
Chairs, bedspreads, books and other mounds of garbage have been piling up – without city intervention – for months near 77th Street on Columbus Boulevard.
“That’s disgusting. It’s been more than a month since this garbage has been here, probably in the summer – for a long time,” Fazi Husain, a nanny who works in the neighborhood, told The Post. big.”
Residents on social networks said that the eye full of garbage is the property of a local, who uses the block next to the MS 245 school as a personal storage unit.
“Objects hoarded on the sidewalk by a mentally ill person, homeless” wrote a Twitter user. “I pay for storage … I guess I can designate a sidewalk like mine to store things?” And no one can move them? ”
An 53-year-old Amazon worker, who refused to give his name, said the man sometimes tries to make a few dollars from the garbage pile.
“Sometimes he puts a price on it, but who buys it? I see him sitting here sometimes, ”said the delivery worker.
“The police are coming, but I don’t know why I let him stay here … This is not good in a pandemic situation,” he added.
A resident of the Upper West Side said that the piles of garbage were reported several times to the Department of Sanitation and the city’s police line without emergency.
“The case has been reported dozens of times to @ nyc311 @NYCSanitation and nothing is done ”, the the user wrote on Twitter.
The Department of Sanitation did not immediately respond to the request for comment.