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
No, Putnam, I don’t litter… and the folks that do litter (I’d estimate about 83% of this fine city’s population) drive me effing nuts.
AND I’ve provided some harsh words to several of these litterbugs… err… as long as they’ve been a girl under the age of, say, 14 and don’t look like they’d hurt me.
Tyburg – I hope you aren’t saying you throw trash on the sidewalk or out your car window. Because no one I know does that. Obviously enough do it such that the rest of us have to sweep up after them (I regularly patrol my block and fill a garbage can a week with refuse). But I would hope that anyone who can spare time to read a blog can be bothered to walk the half block to a public trash can (at least NYC has them unlike so many other cities).
Luz is cute.
They had the street blocked off last night with cop cars on the Gates Ave side, I assume because they were cleaning it up? The garbage was there by 2PM, because that’s when we got back from Trader Joe’s… so they were still cleaning it up that late?
I gotta ask Luz, this is the first I have heard the story!
Damn, that’s the best dump job I’ve seen in a long time!
Snappy, based on the articles is sounds like the contractor who was removing the stuff from the house owed the rubbish removal guys money, so instead of hauling the garbage away, they justed dumped it out. We all know how the “waste management” industry can be.
tyburg- off you go- 60 days. This isn’t just garbage- its a whole dumpster full of it thrown in the street. Contractor garbage contains a lot of nasty stuff- like broken, splintery wood, sharp metal, etc. They damaged cars and who do you think will pay for the clean-up by sanitation? You guessed it- us. This is far beyond throwing your trash on the sidewalk.
I saw this last night as I was riding my bike down Vanderbilt at like 8:30PM. It was causing a traffic nightmare. And this picture looks like it was taken at least mid-afternoon. You mean to tell me this crap sat around for several hours on a busy street like Vanderbilt for that long?! Crazy.
Thanks bxgrl, I agree with you.