They're making a massive stink in Washington Heights.
With pooch poop lining its streets and sidewalks, the neighborhood is the No.1 ZIP code with essentially the most gripes about canine number-two's in 2025, per new 311 complaint data.
Repping ZIP code 10032 — however boasting zero dog-waste-bag dispensers — Washington Heights produced 160 of the greater than 1,600 poop complaints filed because the daybreak of the yr, per the report, obtained by Gothamist.
It's a funked-up accolade previously held by Hamilton Heights again in 2023.
However when piles of steaming stool set the usual, nobody actually wins.
“Please choose up your canine's poop, it's getting out of hand,” barked a peeved pedestrian in a digital plea. “I can't get again to my residence with out feeling nauseous by the point I rise up the steps.”
“I can cope with each a part of town aside from this half,” he added, “as a result of this half doesn't should be part of town.”
Equally nauseated New Yorkers agree.
Throughout the boroughs, the fuss over feces has reportedly remained on a gradual climb because the pandemic.
Metropolis officers have obtained a staggering 1,622 dog-waste complaints within the first half of this yr, alone, the information exhibits. These grievances dwarf the 1,426 and 1,392 crappy carps created from January to June of 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Jessica S. Tisch, commissioner of the Division of Sanitation, just lately wagged a scolding finger at canine house owners who fail to scrub up after their pups, vowing to hit offenders with a $250 advantageous.
Sadly, nonetheless, the specter of hefty dues hasn't achieved a lot to resolve the doo difficulty.
Residents and common guests of the upscale Higher East Facet beforehand informed The Publish that the in any other case good nabe had turn into “filled with s—t.”
However fortunately the UES has since cleaned up its act. Actually, it didn't even make it into the highest 10 rating of this yr's pooh-plagued locations.
Securing the second slot on the smelly record is Flatbush, Brooklyn, ZIP code 11226, the place there are solely two dog-doo baggie dispensers. There, residents leveled 51 complaints in regards to the hound heaps.
Surprisingly, the nice of us of Fordham Manor and Norwood within the Bronx, which share ZIP code 10467, issued 31 complaints regardless of housing a formidable 34 poop-pickup posts.
Brooklyn's East New York, ZIP code 11208, took final place on the rank roster, owing to the scant 24 doggy doo-doo calls its folks made to the 311 hotline, up to now.
Right here's a take a look at NYC's prime 10 scat-scatters spots.
- Washington Heights, Manhattan (10032); 160 complaints; 0 dispensers
- Flatbush, Brooklyn (11226); 51 complaints; 2 dispensers
- Far Rockaway/Bayswater, Queens (11691); 37 complaints; 12 dispensers
- Kingsbridge, Bronx (10463); 35 complaints; 7 dispensers
- West Farms, Bronx (10460); 31 complaints; 11 dispensers
- Fordham Manor/Norwood, Bronx (10467); 31 complaints; 34 dispensers
- East New York, Brooklyn (11207); 31 complaints; 14 dispensers
- Mattress-Stuy/Brownsville/Crown Heights, Brooklyn (11233); 28 complaints; 11 dispensers
- Soundview, Bronx (10472); 25 complaints; 1 dispenser
- East New York, Brooklyn (11208); 24 complaints; 4 dispensers.
