The garbage situation is growing larger around Sheepshead Bay — so much so, that maintenance people at this apartment building on Ocean Avenue (near Gravesend Neck Road) have put up four large garbage bags along the stretch of the front fence.
We’re thinking that the regular black garbage bags are just not bright enough for the polluters to spot. These bright blue bags will be hard to miss, though.
It used to be that the front of a building was dressed up for aesthetics with pretty flowers and shrubbery. In the modern day of excess packaging and people generating so much garbage in the form of empty bottles, coffee cups, and other junk, there is just not enough place to discard this stuff. There was a time, when most people just tucked the errant candy wrapper or chewed up gum and placed it in their pocket where they would discard it at home. Yes, people, I said home! Nowadays, without even a glimmer of guilt, many people just dump the excess weight onto the sidewalk, leaving a trail of debris behind them.
Sheepshead Bay needs to rediscover its roots, when people cared about the cleanliness of the environment. I’m sure you old-timers will know what we’re talking about, here.
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over the past few years sheepshead bay has become a dump.
the business owners and pedestrians are both at fault.
the sidewalks are filled with crap and retarded dog owners don’t clean up afterwards. i think it’s time to nuke this area and start fresh.
It disgusts me what a garbage dump this area has become! Littering is bad enough, but what’s with these people who feel they have to throw enormous amounts of garbage (to the overflowing point) and recyclables in the street corner city trash pails? Also, has anyone checked out the benches by the bicycle path on Ocean Parkway? It’s become a dumping ground for garbage, bottles and food. Don’t these morons have garbage pails in their homes to use? I’d like to see the police really crack down on people dumping their crap on the street! Yes, there’s a fine currently in effect, but the police don’t even bother to enforce it.
I have complained to sanitation so many times it’s not funny. One day I (with gloves on) picked up 8 0r 9 plastic bags with dog poop..Why do the slobs bother to bag it?
And sweeping up leaves, thats a real joke..My neighbor thinks having the gardner come every 2 weeks and blow everything into the street is good enough.
Sweeping is below.
1900 Avenue W needs to put a container outside for their dog owners and that would solve quite a bit of the mess. I know at least 4 tenants in that building never pick up.
The same building has residence that think all they need to do is throw any old furniture or appliance to the curb any day of the week.
And since the pot office has opened the pick up center on 19 street and Ave x there are always boxes in the area that people don’t want to be bothered with at home so they trash this area.
People all day and night throw food containers from their cars, coffee cups,bottles and dirty diapers are something that you throw to the curb either getting in or out of the car.
I do remember when people took pride in the area and I also know how many people got the hell out when the area started to change.
I have been in areas that were known as ghettos that are cleaner than Sheepshead
Bay.
The bar/restaurant on E19 street and Neck Road pour their grease in the street and the cigarette butts outside are disgusting.
pot office. lol *s
Clare, so they’re dumping cookware boxes in front of the Pot Office.
A lot of these people would never tolerate a guest dropping something on their floor. But the streets, apparently, are a different matter altogether.
It’s a sign of contempt for the neighborhood. Maybe these people should move.
Lisanne, a fine would be nice.
Lot of un- and under- employed out there. Pay some of that stimulus money for litter pickers. Give people some spending money, clean up the area-who loses? Pay them by the pound. Set bonuses.
Clare, I wish that the police would actually pay attention to what goes on around them. But they are more jaded than most of us. You could empty all the debris from your handbag on the sidewalk right in front of them and they would act blind. I haven’t tried it, but somehow I *know* that they couldn’t care less.
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