A street on the Upper West Side has turned into a hoarder’s personal junkyard – and local residents are fed up.
Chairs, bedspreads, books, and other piles of garbage have been piling up near 77th Street on Columbus Avenue for months without the intervention of the city.
“This is disgusting. It’s been over a month since this trash has been here, probably since the summer – a long time,” Fazi Husain, a nanny who works nearby, told The Post. “
Residents on social media said the trash-filled eyesore is owned by a local man, who uses the block at MS 245 school as his own personal storage space.
“Objects hoarded on the sidewalk by a mentally ill person, not by the homeless,” wrote a Twitter user“I’m paying for storage… I suppose I could just designate a sidewalk like mine to store stuff? And no one can move them? “
A 53-year-old Amazon delivery driver, who declined to mention his name, said the man sometimes tries to make a few dollars from the pile of junk.
“Sometimes he puts a price on it, but who buys this? I see him sitting here sometimes, ”said the delivery man.
“The police are coming, but I don’t know what is the reason for letting him stay here … This is no good in a pandemic situation,” he added.
An Upper West Side resident said the piles of trash have been reported multiple times to the Department of Sanitation and the city’s non-emergency police.
Case has reported dozens of times to @ nyc311 @NYCSanitation and nothing is done, ”it user wrote on Twitter.
The Department of Sanitation did not immediately respond to the request for comment.