An Upper West Side street has been turned into one collector’s personal rubbish dump – and residents in the area are fed up.
Chairs, beds, books and other piles of rubbish have been piling up for months – without city intervention – near 77th Street in Columbus Avenue.
‘It’s disgusting. “It’s been more than a month since this garbage was here, probably since the summer – a long time,” Fazi Husain, a nurse working in the area, told The Post. “It’s getting bigger.”
Residents on social media said the garbage in the trash is the property of a local man who uses the block near the MS 245 school as his own personal storage unit.
“Items stored on the sidewalk by a mentally ill person, not homeless,” wrote one Twitter user. ‘I pay for storage … I assume I can only designate a sidewalk as mine to store belongings? And no one can move them? ‘
A 53-year-old delivery worker from Amazon, who did not want to give his name, said the man sometimes tries to earn a few dollars from the rubbish heap.
“Sometimes he puts a price on it, but who buys it? I see how he sometimes sits here, “said the delivery worker.
“Police are coming, but I do not know the reason for letting him stay here … It’s not good in a pandemic,” he added.
A resident of Upper West Side said a lot of rubbish had been reported to the Department of Sanitation and the city’s non-emergency police several times.
“Case has reported dozens of times at @ nyc311 @NYCSanitation and nothing is done, ”the user wrote on Twitter.
The Department of Sanitation does not immediately respond to a request for comment.