The city's 311 system saw a whopping 41,023 gripes about garbage on sidewalks citywide from Sept. 21, 2023 to Sept. 20 - an almost 250% surge from 11,813 during the same period four years ago and 30% more than the 31,890 last year, a Post examination of city data found.
Just looking down any street, or any corner, there's going to be piles of trash, and they're going to stay there for days, because it seems like trashmen aren't picking it up for whatever reason," said Flatbush native Maika Eugene.
The trash is terrible and then the rats come. I get them in my apartment and they're all over the streets -it's because of this trash all over the place," Mercurius, 79, told The Post while motioning to a pile of litter on Nostrand Avenue.
There's no way that we should be living like this, man," complained David Gallimore about the trash accumulation in his neighborhood.
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