An Upper West Side street has been turned into a personal garbage dump – and area residents are fed up.
Chairs, bedspreads, books and other piles of garbage have been piling up – without city intervention – for months near 77th Street on Columbus Avenue.
“This is disgusting. It’s been over a month since this garbage has been here, probably since the summer – a long time,” Fazi Husain, a nanny who works in the neighborhood, told The Post. “It’s getting bigger and bigger. “
Residents on social media said the garbage-filled monstrosity is owned by a local man, who uses the block next to the MS 245 school as his own personal deposit.
“Items accumulated on the sidewalk by a mentally ill, not a homeless person,” wrote a Twitter user. “I pay for storage … I suppose I can just designate a sidewalk as mine to store my belongings? And can anyone move them? “
An Amazon delivery man, 53, who declined to give his name, said that sometimes the man tries to earn a few dollars from the pile of garbage.
“Sometimes he puts a price on it, but who buys it? I see him sitting here sometimes, ”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 rubbish had been reported several times to the Sanitation Department and the city’s non-emergency police line.
“Case reported dozens of times to @ nyc311 @NYCSanitation and nothing is done, ”o the user wrote on Twitter.
The Sanitation Department did not immediately respond to the request for comment.