Members of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association (OZPKRBA) stood outside of the neighborhood’s Dollar Tree at 137-20 Cross Bay Blvd. on Monday, Aug. 7 to warn locals of “a rat infestation” that ultimately forced the store to close after numerous complaints.
This past weekend, OZPKRBA President Sam Esposito, a lifelong Ozone Park resident, received complaints from residents who notified him of the store’s condition. Esposito arrived at the store on Sunday afternoon to check it out for himself only to find rat droppings underneath and on top of some of the store’s food products, as well as packaging that appeared to have been eaten through by the rodents.
“What we saw was appalling,” Esposito told reporters on Monday. “It’s all over the store.”
For Esposito, his immediate concern rooted from the store’s close proximity to local shelters that house families that rely on Dollar Tree for affordable food. Upon seeing the extent of the store’s rat problem for himself, Esposito confronted the store’s assistant manager before contacting Dollar Tree’s corporate office and the neighborhood’s elected representatives.
“[She] dismissed us, disrespected us, would not take this seriously and would not remove the food from the shelves,” Esposito said of his conversation with the store’s assistant manager. “Corporate from Dollar Tree came onto the scene [and] shut down this site down, as of eight o’clock this morning, indefinitely.”
Dollar Tree first opened its doors on Cross Bay Boulevard in 2018 shortly after the closure of Lady Jane Craft Center, which previously occupied the space for decades. Since opening, Esposito said the store has been an ongoing source of problems, including garbage buildup in the streets, not cleaning the sidewalk, leaving gates unsecured and prostitutes “doing business” in the store’s garage.
This, according to Esposito, has earned the store a poor reputation over the past few years.
“We have three Dollar Trees,” Esposito said. “This one is known as the worst, the sloppiest, the dirtiest and now, rat-infested.”
13 comments:
Can we blame trump ?
With stories like this, the press is always SO VERY CAREFUL not to mention any names of the people working in the store or even the manager. I wonder why?
So, the "job creators" are causing a rat infestation? I'm sure the owners are loyal members of the "Chamber of Horrors", or is it the "Chamber of Commerce" and card-carrying members of the GOP.
Typical right wingers.
Here in the Great Red State Swamp of Florida, we call them food.
We've got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown
What a mess, this town's in tatters, I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan
Don't you know the crime rate's going up, up, up, up, up?
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough
Dollar tree is for poor people and immigrants. Shut it down.
This Oz rat czar aka glory hound is living in Oz if he thinks the same problem does not exist in every store/restaraunt in the neighborhood. When is the press conference at all the others???
@NPC_doofus has been inhaling too much diesel fuel exhaust again, by the looks of it.
With stories like this, the press is always SO VERY CAREFUL not to mention any names of the people working in the store or even the manager. I wonder why?
Probably didn't know their names or didn't ask. I'll bet Esposito knows....
Where is Lady Gaga’s dad when you need him ?
‘L Can we blame trump ?”
Of course not. He fixed all this. Everyone is saying it!
Here in the Great Swamp of Florida, we only have to worry about alligators and snakes. And we just shoot 'em. The Governor keeps talking 'bout the illegals coming over our border with Mexico, but I guess even I'm not dumb enuff to know that Florida has a border with Mexico.
Do they sell PS 5's ?
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