Exclusive | NYC trash complaints have soared Brooklyn neighborhood is the worst offender

The Big Apple’s getting pretty trashy.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. Kings County tops the garbage heap with the most complaints about sidewalk refuse. Residents of the 11226 ZIP code, which covers Flatbush, logged more 311 hotline complaints than anywhere else in the Smelly Apple, data obtained by The Post show.

The neighborhood racked up a nose-pinching 986 complaints, while the entire borough saw 15,128 grievances, up 66% from 11,413 in the last year. “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.“It’s almost like complaints are taken with a blind eye,” Eugene, 24, continued.“Compared to other neighborhoods in Brooklyn, there’s way more trash here.” Joan Mercurius, who has lived within the ZIP code for 25 years, blamed the waste-filled sidewalks for bringing vermin into her apartment. “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. “People randomly throw their garbage and sometimes the garbage man don’t take it, so sometimes it stays there for weeks or months,” raged David Gallimore. “It’s demeaning,” Gallimore, 60, said. “There’s no way that we should be living like this, man.”The section of Cortelyou Road inside the 11226 ZIP — which stretches from Dahill Road to Schenectady Avenue — saw the highest number of 311 complaints about trash on the sidewalk out of all streets citywide, with ...