Boerum Hill's Mad Crapper Caught in the Act
The residents of Boerum Hill have been contending with an unpleasant quality of life problem recently—someone’s been crapping on the sidewalks and in people’s front yards with increasing regularity. Last Tuesday, The Daily News devoted an entire article to the issue, with Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum Hill Association, confirming, “It’s a big problem…
The residents of Boerum Hill have been contending with an unpleasant quality of life problem recently—someone’s been crapping on the sidewalks and in people’s front yards with increasing regularity. Last Tuesday, The Daily News devoted an entire article to the issue, with Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum Hill Association, confirming, “It’s a big problem – it’s gotten worse over the years and much worse recently.” Certain clues, most notably the location of the evidence and the presence of tissue paper, had convinced residents that the perpetrator had two legs instead of four but no one had caught the person in the act. Until yesterday. Here it is from the horse’s mouth:
For the second time in two weeks I got pooped on. This time I saw her. I live on Dean Street between Hoyt and Bond. At 6 a.m. this morning my wife heard…well peeing…she woke me up and I went to the door. We live in the garden apartment so I looked up…and saw butt – thus I yelled…”HEY MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!” This was the first time in my life that I literally meant it.
After the pooping I threw on some clothes and set out to find the poopertrator. I did not find her. But my wife did hear the woman outside while I scrambled for my clothes, she did not run, just kept talking to herself. It turns out that the infamous stoop pooper is a clearly rather mentally ill black woman with very short dreds.
It actually sounds a lot like the woman who we found giving herself a makeshift bath in the doorway of our ground floor during our renovations a couple of years ago. Does this description match with any other sightings?
Boerum Hill’s on the Trail of a Nincom-Poop [NY Daily News]
What strikes me is that in present-day NYC we can narrow it down to ONE homeless person. When I first moved here the housed and the homeless seemed to be about 1:1; trying to pick out ONE homless person was like standing in Times Square and trying to pick out one particular taxi.
I hope this women is found and taken somewhere where she might get some care, bot for her sake and the sake of the, um..crapees.
While this may seem as amusing as sighting a rare emu in the wild, this is a prime example of people slipping through the cracks of our so-called mental health system. This is about as degraded as human life can be in a 21st century modern city. I’m serious in asking what can be done to help her, not just remove her from the vicinity of multi-million dollar homes?
i’ve seen her in action! i live on Dean and Hoyt, across from Heath and Michelle, and I’ve seen her going #2 on the side of their house, the side w/ the garages.
I’ve lived in Boerum Hill for all of two months now, so excuse me if I’m taking a newbie perspective; It seems to me that if you have shady, tree-lined streets that directly abut a rather urban area (Downtown Brooklyn) it’s only natural for people to detour through the shady parts and sometimes stop and chill for a bit. I often see people relaxing on my neighbours’ stoops that obviously don’t live there, and aside from the occasional bit of trash or soda bottle left over, it seemed like a perfectly legitimate symbiotic relationship. The crapping, however, is a bit over the line. I’ve lived in urban neighbourhoods before and dealt with urban excrement. Most recently, I stumbled upon it (nearly through it) on the sidewalk near State and Bond and just assumed it was par for the course. Interesting to see we’ve narrowed it down to one prime suspect.
My neighbors caught a woman preparing to leave me a present by my door a few months ago. Luckily they got rid of her before she could drop it off. I wonder if it is the same woman. If so, she really gets around. I live in the Stuy.
Actually the city is to blame for this…
They let some of the mentally people go after a few years to cut back costs..so they become homeless and run the streets.
Sad but if you people live in Boerum Hill
are there cops regulating the problem??
This description sounds like the lady I saw last week sitting on our neighbors stoop (near Pacific & Bond). She was rummaging through a paper bag, and initially I thought she was probably a junkie getting ready to shoot up, but maybe it was TP in that bag? Ewww. Didn’t notice any poop the next day.
From the vague description it sounds like a mentally ill woman often seen sitting in the MetroTech Commons talking to herself. I took notice when she was sitting on a bench talking to herself wearing just a t-shirt and panties.
Is this the same woman who used to hunker down in the passageway near the Bond Street entrance to the A/G at Hoyt/Schermerhorn?