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NY'S CRAPPIEST NEIGHBORHOODS
By SUSANNAH CAHALAN
Last updated: 2:55 am
February 22, 2009
Posted: 2:48 am
February 22, 2009
Step lightly in New York's crappiest neighborhood - the Upper West Side.
The tony area is ground zero for doggy doo, packed with inconsiderate people who don't pick up after their pups, according to a list compiled for The Post by the Department of Sanitation.
Manhattan saw an 88 percent spike in fines for unattended droppings last year, with Morningside Drive, Amsterdam Avenue, West End Avenue, Riverside Drive and Central Park West leading the complaints, Sanitation enforcement officers said.
"It's a minefield over here," said Max Moyet, 34, a dog walker who lives on Central Park West. "It upsets the hell out of me."
Moyet says he takes pains to "stare down" people who do not clean up after their pooches, a practice that's become a daily activity.
"It's their self-absorbed, all-about-me attitude," Moyet complained. "They're like, 'I'm too busy going to my Pilates class. I don't have the time to keep the neighborhood clean.' "
Suparna Chakrabortti, who lives in Queens but visits her family on West End Avenue almost every day, says the Upper West Side has gone to the dogs.
"It's on every block every day," she said. "In the past couple months, it's gotten much worse. I don't remember it being this bad."
While those Upper West Side streets have the highest concentration of complaints in Manhattan, the prize for the crappiest borough goes to The Bronx, which with 354 violations accounts for over a third of the summonses issued citywide, the Sanitation Department said. The two worst locations are on Mosholu Parkway and Hunts Point Avenue.
Brooklyn pet owners, who live in the second-worst borough for doggy doo, have been slapped with 224 fines in 2008, up 47 percent from the year before. Sunset Park, Park Slope and Brownsville are the three top Fido-fouled areas.
Watch your step in Jackson Heights - it topped the list twice in the top three worst dog-dung locations in Queens, which was nipped with 168 violations in 2008. Trendy Queens neighborhood Astoria also topped the list.
Staten Islanders were up to their neck in doggy doo - hit with a 120 percent increase in the number of fines issued, from 24 in 2007 to 53 last year.
The Department of Sanitation hopes to combat inconsiderate pet owners after raising the fine from $50 to $250 this past November.
Sanitation officers issued 909 pooper-scooper violations citywide from July 2007 to June 2008, up 16 percent from 783 for the same period the previous year.
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We have a crappy neighborhood too. I don't know what the po-po do here as far as ticketing. Sometimes, the crap is too big to be a dog's, yes, that's right, some human has just dropped trou and taken a dump right on the sidewalk.
This is why, we take off our shoes before walking in our apartment.
If I had a dog, and when I had a girlfriend that had a dog, I had to pick up the crap. It doesn't feel all that good to squish it as you pick it up even with a bag. So, not interested in having a dog even if we were allowed to own one in our complex. I'm amazed at how much dog crap we have, since we're not allowed to have dogs.
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