Boerum Hill Residents Complain About Trash at Nearby School
PS 261 in Boerum Hill has a garbage problem, say local residents who are getting tired of seeing, and, this time of year, smelling, trash strewn in front of the school. According to DNAinfo, the school, at 314 Pacific Street, has been leaving piles of garbage bags out on the sidewalk for years. One 21…
PS 261 in Boerum Hill has a garbage problem, say local residents who are getting tired of seeing, and, this time of year, smelling, trash strewn in front of the school. According to DNAinfo, the school, at 314 Pacific Street, has been leaving piles of garbage bags out on the sidewalk for years. One 21 year-old woman the reporter spoke to remembers avoiding the stacks of refuse on school’s side of the street when she was just 9 years old.
The school dumps garbage bags on Dean Street daily during the school year and throughout the summer when it is home to various youth programs. It can’t use dumpsters because the city’s garbage trucks don’t have the lifts required to empty them and the city only picks up the school’s garbage three days a week.
Locals have complained to the city and the school about rancid liquid leaking from the bags, flies and papers catching flight and dispersing up and down the block. One resident told DNAinfo, “The sidewalk just gets nasty on that side of the street.”
Have you seen trash building up outside PS 261? What about other schools? Are there similar problems elsewhere?
Trash Buildup from Local School Plagues Residents of Boerum Hill [DNAinfo]
Photo: Claire Angelica via DNAinfo
Yes, all schools dispose of their garbage this way, but it is about time that a better solution to disposing of the daily garbage as well as emptying street garbage cans outside schools on a regular basis so that they do not just overflow was thought of.
The City used to have open sewers, but a new system was thought of.
London used to have large piles of Garbage outside some commercial as well as school establishments until the IRA used to plant bombs in them.
Piles of garbage hide all manner of ills.
So sometimes, I am wondering why New York City is not like other big cities in the world where I never see garbage on the street…
I just came back from a big city in Germany and streets were so clean…and I did not see anything like that there.
Can someone explain to me?
I am from Europe originally and it has been 3 years that I live in New York and everybody that visits also do not understand why in New York, we live trash outside…
No kidding there are rats everywhere.
Seems like a simple problem to solve…
Why aren’t they as clean? because folks like no-permits think it is not a problem or issue. Surprisingly how many are like him. I see my neighbors who have plenty of money for renovations and nannies but somehow sweeping sidewalk and trash is not on their radar.
All schools dispose of refuse this way in Brooklyn. Maybe it’s an issue of not having a place to put a dumpster. Anyways, life goes on. People find something else to whine about, like ice cream trucks that aren’t locally sourced at playgrounds.
PS132 the Shining Star of Williamsburg has the exact same problem. On the Metropolitan side of the building trash, spoiled milk, corn, whatever was shoved into the lunchroom trash bags uneaten is always all over the sidewalks. Old desks, broken furniture, student papers. It’s disgusting to walk by every single day and Im sure is doing nothing to help the rat problems in the city.
If not bagged properly it certainly is. It breaks open and spills all over. I doubt you and your kind feel it would be your responsibility to even clean up the mess after the bags spilled over the sidewalk with spoiled foods.
Cooking grease also leaks and spills. Just look at the sidewalk in front of many restaurants.
It is oblivious NYers like yourself who are responsible for filthy conditions of our streets