Trash Bags Full of Urine Fouling Basement and Irking Residents at 301 Cumberland Street
A tipster let us know about a truly bizarre problem in their Fort Greene apartment building. Apparently someone in the building at 301 Cumberland Street has been dumping trash bags full of urine down the garbage chute. And these are not tiny trash bags, they are the kind used in kitchen garbage cans and they…
A tipster let us know about a truly bizarre problem in their Fort Greene apartment building. Apparently someone in the building at 301 Cumberland Street has been dumping trash bags full of urine down the garbage chute. And these are not tiny trash bags, they are the kind used in kitchen garbage cans and they are half full of urine–yes we have a picture of the offending bags after the jump.
According to the tipster this has been going on since about November of 2013 with bag after pee-filled bag bursting at the bottom of the chute or leaking after it lands. The basement now reeks of urine and is becoming unusable. Unfortunately the building’s laundry room is also located in the basement. “Our basement has become a truly foul place to go,” said the tipster.
The tipster also says that the building’s owner and management company, Dermot Company, has been aware of the problem for a long time but has not done much to address it until many tenants got together and pressed the issue. Earlier this month the building manager finally posted a note (below) demanding that the culprit (who must be consuming a lot of beverages to produce that much pee) stop dumping bags of urine down the garbage chute. The note indicates that every apartment will be searched to find the guilty party if necessary, but our tipster says that has not happened yet.
Through its public relations firm the Dermot Company emailed us the following statement: “The Dermot Company has been and continues to work closely with the Department of Health, the Police Department and the building’s tenants to identify the problem and determine the proper course of action. We strive to make our tenants feel at home and safe in our buildings, and hope to resolve the situation as soon as possible.”
Until Dermot or someone else finds the pee bagger (or whatever it is you call someone who does this), it’s likely there will be longer lines at Fort Greene laundromats.
And of course, a picture of the disturbingly large bag (or bags) of pee.
Photo of 301 Cumberland: Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark
Let’s be clear Dermot is a management company that gives less than a shit about their tenants. Through intimidation, racial and gender slurs, inaccurate rental billing, and not responding to telephone calls and e-mails they engage in the old NYC landlord practice of harassing older rent stabilized tenants out using inferior materials & illegal construction staff to renovate apartments & illegally take them out of rent stabilization. Folk have lived with giant bags of pee since last year & they are now responding? Tipped that some blog posts were coming out I bet
This is sadly not so uncommon where there are rent stabilized tenants.
Mentally/emotionally ill people are the real reason that the State has not allowed Rent Stabilization to expire….who else would re-new the leases and house the mentally ill? Who else but a Rent Stabilized landlord would renew the lease of someone with such anti-social house keeping? Or behavior? Even when serious crimes are committed, the Police will do nothing when the landlords complain and good tenants will leave rather than live with such people, unless their rent is so low that they cannot leave and the Police will do nothing to help these poor tenants or Landlords, they claim it is a Landlord/tenant dispute!.
Rent Stabilization protects the insane and criminals, but does very little to protect good landlords or good tenants.
And when I say the protecting the insane and criminals, that can be both landlords & tenants.
This stinking mess is mild compared to many nightmares that I have seen, that good landlords can do nothing about, except loose good tenants and eventually give up in disgust that the Police will do nothing to help good tenants where crimes have been committed.
frankly, your long winded rant makes me question your mental stability.
this sort of incident was common in Reagan era…..with his trickle down economics.
This is yellow journalism of the worst kind.
no doubt they posted this story to generate steady stream of comments
you are becoming most astute in your golden years, pete.
How do you get a dog to pee in a plastic bag?
Maybe someone with a non-functional toilet?
Jinx, Slopey. Wee posted at the same time!