An Upper West Side street has become a personal dump, and area residents are fed up.
Chairs, bedspreads, books and other mounds of rubbish pile up – without the intervention of the city – for months near 77th Street on Columbus Avenue.
“It simply came to our notice then. This rubbish has been here for more than a month, probably since the summer, a long time ago, ”Fazi Husain, a nanny who works in the neighborhood, told The Post. “It’s getting bigger.”
Residents on social media said the tear-filled tear is owned by a local man, who uses the block near the MS 245 school as his own personal storage unit.
“Articles treasured on the sidewalk by a mentally ill person, homeless” wrote a Twitter user. “I pay for storage … I guess I can only designate a sidewalk like mine to store objects? And no one can move them?”
A 53-year-old Amazon delivery worker who refused to give his name said the man sometimes tries to make some money from the garbage pile.
“Sometimes you put a price on it, but who buys it? Sometimes I see him sitting here, ”said the delivery man.
“The police are coming, but I don’t know what the reason is for letting him stay here … This is not good in a pandemic situation,” he added.
An Upper West Side resident said the piles of garbage have been reported several times to the Sanitation Department and the city’s non-emergency police line.
“The case was reported dozens of times to @ nyc311 @NYCSanitation and nothing is done “, on the user wrote on Twitter.
The Department of Sanitation did not immediately respond to the request for comment.