She’s gotta do what she’s gotta doo doo.
A Manhattan mannequin has been dubbed the “Poop Fairy” for taking issues into her personal arms after the latest snow melting revealed piles of canine crap littering the concrete jungle.
Olivia Bannerman has been slowly carving her Higher West Aspect enclave out of a “poopmageddon” brought on by lazy canine house owners who took benefit of the weeks-long Artic freeze.
“It’s abhorrent. It’s loopy!” Bannerman advised The Submit concerning the state of Riverside Park, her favourite spot to stroll her Golden Retriever, Violet.
“It seems like I hardly made a dent.”
With rolls of doggie baggage in hand and a optimistic angle, Bannerman has been clearing sections of her beloved greenspace a minimum of twice per day in a process she’s likened to a disturbing “Easter egg hunt.”
Riverside Park is so overwhelmed with the animal waste that it takes the 28-year-old simply quarter-hour to undergo a whole doggie roll of doggie baggage, which generally are available in packs of 15.
“It drives you loopy since you’re working out of luggage and also you’re strolling residence and also you’re seeing dozens and dozens of piles of poop and also you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I would like extra baggage!’ However baggage are costly,” mentioned Bannerman, a software program designer who moonlights as a mannequin.
The poop drawback began nicely earlier than Bannerman stepped into her roll because the “Poop Fairy” — a time period first coined by then-Council Member Erik Bottcher who was begging his constituents to wash up after their canine as a result of there was no mystical being that will do it for them.
Canine house owners have been obnoxiously leaving the droppings behind in an obvious try to cover it beneath the inches of snow dumped on the 5 boroughs final month, which then solidified the waste in a disgusting layer of ice.
There have been a whopping 643 canine waste calls made to the town’s 311 reporting system citywide between Jan. 25’s snowstorm and Tuesday — a virtually 94% improve within the 332 complaints made throughout the identical interval in 2025 and a startling 160% improve from simply two weeks prior.
However fairly than complain, Bannerman determined to step up and be a steward of her group — a job she feels compelled to finish as a latest “transplant” to the Massive Apple.
“I wasn’t born right here, however I’m right here occupying area, making the most of all the things it has to supply. And we’re a really densely populated group. Whether or not we admit it or not, all of the actions that we take as people have an effect on the remainder of us,” she defined.
“I simply really feel like that is my method of doing my a part of giving again to my metropolis. It’s not selfless. In flip, I get to stroll round a barely poop-less space. However I believe that it’s simply essential that we do not forget that we’re all related.”
In latest days, she’s taken to social media to disgrace the soiled canine house owners who’re too lazy to carry out the duty themselves — and request compensation for doing their work for them.
A number of neighbors have dubbed Bannerman the “Poop Fairy” for her work, a title she has since come to just accept.
“I believe I may be the Poop Fairy! I’m on the market daily choosing up poop!” Bannerman mentioned.
“It’s not a glamorous title by any means, however I believe the work that I’m doing is essential, so I’ll take it anyway.”
