Not picking up after your pup is a violation of the measure, introduced in 1978, and carries a $250 fine.
But a sanitation officer must witness a violation in order to issue a ticket, according to the Department of Sanitation, so some residents rely on 311 to document discarded poop in their neighborhoods.
Queens had the highest number of complaints over the past four years with 1,409 and Maspeth was the ZIP code with third most complaints in the city.
Rounding out the top 10 were Parkchester and Wakefield in the Bronx, with 109 and 94 complaints respectively, East New York in Brooklyn with 84, the Bronx's Bedford Park with 80 and Ridgewood in Queens with 77.
12 comments:
This is pretty crappy, Crappy.
Cities around the country have found that putting up (and stocking) bag dispensers and leaving waste receptacles available cuts shit on the street and in parks significantly. It doesn't sound appealing to the law and order types, but it works.
I find that walking along the upper east side is terrible.... i can only imagine how bad these places must be.
Anon #2 is correct - all over America cities with any smarts put out bags, garbage receptacles and water bowls for dogs - even little towns in the south. And people use all 3!
dog shit or human shit?
Lots of poop? No shit!
When Leroy Comrie's gotta go, he's gotta go.
Queens is a pigsty a throwback to the 1980s. The rest of the city has moved on and we are stuck in a weird time warp out here.
Even the newspapers are little more than zombies. Can you imagine them on a campaign for any improvement on our lives? Instead they release one press release after another from the desk of developers and their lap dogs the politicians.
Queens a throwback to the 1980s ?
How old are you, LOL One could only WISH !!
Queens 2014 is more like Times Square, Hells Kitchen 1972 !!
Areas like Roosevelt & 96 street are currently worse then anyplace in the country including South Central Los Angeles and Harlem any point in history !!!
Just send a DSNY truck to shovel up the poop along with the bike lanes.
How about hiring pooper-scoopers
at $10/hr to clean the streets ?
Beats unemployment...
"How about hiring pooper-scoopers
at $10/hr to clean the streets ?"
Sounds nice. Until the sanitation union tries organizing them in an election year so pols support it for the votes. Then they are all union employees with nice pensions who fight any city initiative to reduce shit on the streets because it means they wouldn't be needed. So you'd never get bag dispensers for people to use, you'd never get cops ticketing people whose dogs are shitting in front of them and just leave it there.
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