The complaints are piling up.
A putrid sidewalk so blanketed with poop that it’s barely satisfactory has change into a logo of the Huge Apple’s winter crap disaster — as complaints over canine waste attain file highs.
A video of a vile stretch of Bruckner Boulevard within the Mott Haven part of the Bronx went viral Monday as thoughtless house owners proceed to go away their pets’ enterprise on the bottom, seemingly emboldened to not scoop the poop within the weeks since an Arctic deepfreeze and big storm left piles of snow throughout the 5 boroughs.
“It’s horrible: It’s, like, rubbish and poop in all places,” Mott Haven resident Lulu Gerena, 28, fumed to The Submit whereas strolling her Beagle-mix Pinkie close to the stench-filled stretch.
“It’s not honest, as a result of everyone has to step within the poop, as a result of no person is choosing it up.”
Residents are steaming over the slobs who’re turning metropolis sidewalks right into a sewer path.
There have been a whopping 643 canine waste calls made to town’s 311 reporting system citywide between Jan. 25’s snowstorm and Tuesday — a virtually 94% enhance within the 332 complaints made throughout the identical interval in 2025 and a startling 160% enhance from simply two weeks prior.
“That is the worst it has ever been,” stated 31-year-old canine proprietor Ryan F., who blamed the inflow of dung in Mott Haven on a spate of latest housing developments within the space, which reportedly ushered in an uptick of latest canines.
“It hasn’t been that loopy, actually, till the snow,” chimed in 45-year-old Bronxite Jsun. “I feel everyone’s in their very own zone, particularly when it’s chilly — they simply need to get out. No one’s actually making an attempt to dig somewhat snow out.”
Information exhibits the viral, vile stretch in Boogie Down — which sarcastically has a really seen signal urging canine walkers to “bag it up” — doesn’t even crack the highest filthiest streets within the metropolis based mostly on variety of complaints, in line with metropolis knowledge.
Most complaints concerning the undesirable logs have been logged on forty ninth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Sundown Park and Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, with 28 complaints at every road since Jan. 25’s snowstorm.
Washington Heights logged the best variety of whole complaints of any neighborhood within the Huge Apple — a whopping 66 — for the reason that snowpocalypse.
Sundown Park, Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington, Central Harlem and Highbridge adopted swimsuit with dozens extra doggy doo complaints.
Indignant metropolis dwellers — and even progressives on the Metropolis Council — have been placing canine house owners on blast, arguing the dung is just extra noticeable in opposition to the snow.
“Choose up your f–king canine s–t,” lefty Gen-Z Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé raged on X.
“Not like manure, canine waste is a public well being hazard. It spreads micro organism, pollutes our streets and waterways, and creates unsafe situations — particularly for seniors and folks with disabilities. Not choosing it up isn’t simply gross. It places all of us in danger,” Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif added in an X publish.
The outrage got here after The Submit revealed an uptick of “canine waste” complaints had been lodged with town’s 311 service instantly within the storm’s aftermath.
The town sanitation division beforehand informed The Submit it hasn’t issued any violations since Jan. 25, partially because of all of its sources targeted on snow elimination efforts in the course of the cussed week-long deep freeze.
However even with this week’s reprieve from freezing temperatures, scores of canine waste stories proceed to be made each day, with almost 70 new calls made to 311 on Tuesday – regardless of excessive temperatures approaching 50 levels Fahrenheit.
Enforcement of town’s Pooper Scooper Legislation remains to be troublesome on a daily day, a DSNY rep stated, as enforcement officers should catch house owners within the act of leaving waste behind. Simply two summonses have been issued in 2025.
“We’ve finished many particular patrols in areas with excessive charges of 311 service requests for canine waste, and so they have yielded nearly zero summonses,” the rep stated. “The probabilities of somebody not choosing up after their canine whereas an enforcement officer is watching may be very, very slim.
“It’s clear that folks solely go away piles behind once they know nobody is watching.”
