Dumping on Vanderbilt Avenue
The Local brings us the bizarre story of the vacant building at 384 Vanderbilt: yesterday afternoon, a swath of garbage and debris lined the avenue between Gates and Greene, where construction workers had been cleaning out the building. It turns out that the waste, which caused damage to at least one of the cars lining…
The Local brings us the bizarre story of the vacant building at 384 Vanderbilt: yesterday afternoon, a swath of garbage and debris lined the avenue between Gates and Greene, where construction workers had been cleaning out the building. It turns out that the waste, which caused damage to at least one of the cars lining the street, was the result of a $900 dispute between the workers and a contractor hired to remove the waste. But the refuse lining the street wasn’t the only stinky aspect of the work at 384 Vanderbilt: one resident and one employee of the neighboring Brooklyn Veterinary Hospital pointed out that the people behind 384 Vanderbilt have been running renting fraud schemes and are currently developing 384 in violation of landmark regulations. Luz Santiago, the Brooklyn Vet employee, said: There was a hustle there. That’s a ten-dollar job on a three-million-dollar brownstone. Even if you hustle, you gotta do things proper. GMAP
The Day: Dumped [The Local, NYT]
Photo by Matt Lieber/The Local
That’s right. In fact, people feel so strongly about not messing with other’s people’s garbage cans that they just throw their garbage all over our yard.
sometimes people litter on the streets because there isn’t a city garbage can in some neighborhoods. walk around none downtown areas you won’t see a city garbage can any where to be found. people don’t like to mess with other peoples garbage cans.
As my father used to say about the carting industry: satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back.
Heather, article says it is ;o(. Who ever the girl from the vet hospital on the pictures is, she is cute.
“Across the street Luz Santiago, dressed in purple scrubs outside the veterinary hospital where she works with Ms. Berger, waved a cigarette in the air and summed up the incident this way”
errr, bitter bubble buyer, Fort Greene never looked like that before gentrification.
When people like you came, thats when problems started, especially the real-estate problems.
Small minority of people that litter? Where do you live?!
Oh, sorry… Happy Land Brooklyn.
I agree it is a small minority of people who litter.
Yes, she is, Kens, but that isn’t her in the picture, lol.
I’d disagree that 83% of the city’s population litters.
I’d say at most 10% litter.