Exclusive | Brazen pigeon feeders turn NYC park into rat-infested hellhole

A woman and her bird-brained associates have been terrorizing Lower East Side locals by dumping piles of seed and food scraps across a tiny park and nearby areas — turning the beloved communal space into a putrid, open-air buffet for pigeons and rats.The crapfest plays out nearly every day at Ahearn Park, with thousands of birds flocking to fowl feasts dumped by at least two older women and a man several times a day, with the birds leaving their droppings on the concrete, benches and unsuspecting passersby, irate residents squawked. “The pigeons are not running away from people — the pigeons have taken over the park,” Bryan Grasso, 51, told The Post, estimating the feeders unload one or more 18-pound bags of birdseed daily at the park between East Broadway and Grand Street.  Russell Moss, 63, claimed the unhinged feeding sessions have driven seniors from the park and kept them from sitting on benches due to the perpetual layer of bird poop.“If you want to sit, you’re going to be sitting in pigeon poo.We don’t see that in Central Park!” he fumed.A pair of videos recorded in November and shared with The Post shows a silver-haired woman tossing feed from a yellow bag in a cart, while surrounded by hundreds of pigeons.

She ignored the person behind the camera, who repeatedly asked why she was feeding the birds.Parks Enforcement Police eventually issued a summons to the woman in January for unawlful feeding after months of complaints, according to Grasso and a department spokeswoman.The move, however, appears to have only ruffled the feeders’ feathers: In recent weeks, residents said, they have discovered sticky, overcooked rice smeared across the ground in the park, along with piles of bread and even noodles and cabbage. “It’s belligerent,” Stuart Rosenberg, 57, said while walking his dog, Sherman.

“Now it’s about claiming territory.” On Wednesday morning, The Post saw at least eight patches of birdseed dotting the concrete, along wi...