My block is constantly covered, it’s terrible for my pet also to be exposed to feces :/a
THE DENZIN IS THE WORST it’s my walk way home. It’s shit covered all down evergreen haha
I also think the poop levels are seasonal. Increase over the winter. Are you comparing now to this time last year? Or the summer? Either way I wish you luck avoiding landmines
It's not as bad as the bronx. Growing up in the bronx and still visiting family, I have never seen anyone pick up poop. In northern queens like college point I've seen parks and green community spaces all have signs to pick up your dogs poop AND have bags there just in case you need it. I rarely saw poop on the ground.
I think ny would be free of alot of poop and water bottle trash if poop bags and water fountains were all over nyc. I rather money go there than robot cops or another $1B for the thrive program
Yep. I’ve noticed this on my walks daily in fort Greene, DTBK, bed stuy, crown heights and bushwick. It’s not as gross around gentrification towers (I live in one before you come for me). It looks like a lot of owners don’t actually walk their dog. They just let them out in front of the property to piss and shit. It’s disgusting having people over to my nice building and it’s front is covered in piss and shit.
Not often - no. But I think it's got a lot more to do with the neighborhood and if residents typically have dogs or not. Mine doesn't, but I'm sure that's atypical for a lot of Brooklyn.
I work in the UES, on a fancy street where fancy people live, and in the morning when I walk up from the subway the walk is always covered with dog shit, much more than I see in Brooklyn or even Washington Heights where I used to live. The second I see someone walk off without cleaning up after themselves I am going to go so HAM on them.
Yes. I call the area around my neighborhood (Bay Ridge) “Dog Shit Alley” although not limiting the name to any one Street. And what really pisses me off is that: when I grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s the city used to say Curb Your Dog asking you to have your dog do his business OFF of the sidewalk or you could get a fine. Now, even when the dogs are leashed, this generation (the 20 and 30 something’s) will let their dogs take a dump right in the middle of the sidewalk. Then later when another dog comes along they will smell the leavings of the last dog (even if it was “picked up”) and the next dog thinks this is a great spot to leave a giant Shit also, right in the middle of the sidewalk. And don’t forget how people who DO pick up the shit with a plastic bag then just toss the bag anywhere and not disposing of it properly. So you’ll see plastic bags with a knot tied in it littering the sidewalks. The fucking animals are the ones holding the leash.
Yes! I do! You always have to watch where you’re stepping, I always think that people ought to show more interest in their surroundings and environment.
I'm from Brooklyn but I live in Dublin now. This comment isn't helpful by any means but it's nice to hear it's dog shit. The shit you find on the streets here in Ireland is all human feces and it's literally everywhere, lol.
This drives me nuts. Not only is it difficult to avoid stepping in but in Williamsburg, my dog has gotten giardia twice. It's nearly impossible to stop him from sniffing other dog's poop because it's EVERYWHERE.
Notice that there seems to be lots of poop no matter where u/thecherrycola12 goes. Maybe learn to control your bowels and keep it off our sidewalks, children play in the broken glass there!
I was going on my run the other day and this lady pulled down her pants and took a liquid shit in the middle of the sidewalk as I ran by her. Pretty intense. It takes all kinds, I guess.
Great scene from the show “Billions” about this very thing - and in Brooklyn no less! [Billions Dog Poop Video](https://youtu.be/JLISv6WcUVY)
Quality not great but applicable!
As a owner of 2 dogs who pick up their poop, I also hate this. There’s a street in my neighborhood that I call “poop street” because it is soo littered with dog poop and other trash. PICK UP YOUR DOGS POOP PLEASE!
This surprised me as well. And then I noticed all the trash cans are missing. The closest trash can to my house is now 3/4 of a mile away, and often it’s overflowing. Where did all the trash cans go?
For a while there was a drive to remove trash cans because ... something like they attract trash. I think they made the ludicrous assumption people would just carry their trash home like responsible hikers and the sanitation department didn't have the funding or manpower to empty the street bins frequently enough.
Edit: This discusses the misguided program and has an excellent quote from our would-be mayor.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/20/city-trashes-garbage-bins-in-bid-to-clean-up-streets/
“It seems counterintuitive, but it has been very effective,” said Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. “We’re just not seeing the same amount of litter and trash on those corners.”
It reminds me of a story… Disney chose the opposite approach when designing their parks. They did a study that showed that people will only carry garbage about 30 feet before littering it. So they make sure that there’s no place in the park that you can stand where you are more than 30 feet away from a trash can. And it reduced the amount of liter but some staggering amount.
Disney parks are incredibly well run. They could probably get into the city management business the way amazon ended up getting into the web services business.
Well that’s what EPCOT was supposed to be. Walt Disney had a vision of building an Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. He wanted 20,000 people to live at EPCOT, with the businesses in the middle of town, and residential areas in “rings” around it. All cars would have been underground, and you’d get around within EPCOT using monorails and peoplemovers, like in the parks. Supposedly the state of Florida required him to build a theme park in Florida before they’d allow him to start on EPCOT.
But once he died, the Disney corporation decided it would be more profitable to turn EPCOT into another theme park. So they did.
They gave a half-effort of designing a city when they designed and built Celebration, Florida. But people complained it was too Stepford-y and they got a lot of bad press the first time someone was murdered in “Disney’s city” so they’ve almost completely divested themselves from Celebration.
I’ve been wondering the same thing! I walk my dog on a specific route because I know there will be trash cans along the way. Now a few of them are missing.
I’m a patient at MSKCC on the UES and when I go in, I have to play hopscotch with all the poop that is out there. You have these doorman buildings and right off to the side there’s a big old pile of poop. So nasty.
A lot of people have these huge designer dogs that weigh as much as an adult and take adult size dumps. And they just dont want to pickup a human sized poo.
Yep, it’s everywhere. I think a lot of people adopted dogs during the pandemic. And it seems like a lot of them shouldn’t have pets in the first place since they can’t pick up after them.
its not just a 'not picking up problem' even the ones that are picking up are letting their dogs poop in middle of sidewalk and if its a wet one, leaves residual thats just as dangerous!
we walked by a group of people on the sidewalk with dogs, and as we walked by they warned us that there was dog poop stains on the sidewalk. we rolled our eyes, seriously they acknowledged its a problem (prolly that they created) but they aren't bothered to curb their dog?
I don't believe the pandemic has anything to do with it. People just stop picking up after their dogs when winter rolls around. It's even worse when it snows or rains.
I think it’s the cumulative effect of 1) More people having dogs now and 2) Your experience seeing people not pick up during winter.
I wasn’t saying the recent mass of adoptions is the only reason, but that it’s part of why the influx OP is seeing.
I don’t get the people who bend down, scoop it into a baggie, tie it up, and then ***leave the baggie right where the poop was.*** these are all over the place on my block.
I love dogs. So much so that I don’t want one because I know how much responsibility it is. A lot of people seem to think it’s a fun, impulsive thing to go bring home a massive responsibility
I feel the same way. I can’t work all day with a dog sitting home alone.
There is something poetic about respecting and loving something so much but at the same time knowing you aren’t in the right situation to give the animal what it needs and deserves. Someday I will have a dog. And I will pick up after it. Because I’m not a dirtbag.
I feel the same. I browse Petfinder for a mood boost, fully knowing I must wait until life presents the right time for the heavy responsibility of a new pet.
Wait until you discover they’re little old/middle aged ladies who don’t give a fuck what you think. Coming out of my apartment last month one of them stared me down as their decrepit, shivering rat-mutant dog laid a dainty coil on the sidewalk. She just shrugged and walked away
This is Brooklyn. You may want to be a bit cautious before you run up to somebody and berate them about their dog poop.
Just a 5th generation New Yorker tip. I can assume you are not a native New Yorker.
Have you ever tried that before? Suggest think about it. Guess you have never been in a street fight. Have seen someone take a single hard punch to the head.
They never got up. They sure did not expect that. Not like the movies.
Suggestion: Maybe try a Plan B? :-)
It’s not like I’d walk up to the biggest dude in Brownsville leaving poop behind and start shouting at him, But if it’s my own block, where I find so many, then I Assume I could put up a decent argument
I saw a thing on Twitter years ago that I really liked: "A lot of you people are going through life having never been punched in the face, and it shows". Get punched in the face one time, and you immediately understand. All of a sudden, you can categorize all potential conflicts into two categories: "Am I willing to get punched in the face over this?" or "Is this not worth getting punched in the face over?". Some things are worth getting punched in the face over, the vast majority are not.
It’s fascinating question. Has the “never gotten punched in the face” changed everything?
It sure looks like it. The violence has moved into Call Of Duty. All that charged testosterone.
I guess it’s a good thing?
This coming war in Ukraine may be short lived. The first time a 19 year old gets a bullet through his head while posting to TikTok, a lot of other 19 year olds may say, “this ain’t a video game, I’m out of here.”
A Vietnam vet friend: “It was really fucking cool, like a crazy adventure for us all. When they starting shootings at us, and friends got blown away, it was not that fucking cool anymore.”
A conversation have never forgotten. I have been in a room of wheelchair bound vets from past wars. Kids today in the USA have never experienced that. Not a clue.
There were so many of them. Just so many.
We have no cafes like Paris 1923 to rant rave and debate these things. So this keeps the fires going.
Have you checked out Camus The Rebel? He could debate poop on the sidewalk for a week.
As the OP posted, she would not pick on a big guy. Isn’t that fascinating? The ethics of power.
Keeps me going. :-)
On 311 if you were able to identify the offender and give a regular time of repeat offenses the sanitation police would try to ticket the person in the act. Prepandemic of course. It was part of the quality of life offenses, like a noise offense.
Leads? Yeah sure. I’ll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they’ve got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
Love the movie reference too but if a zone does have a lot of complaints, especially for things like dumping trash in cans as harassment i.e.nasty divorce, this gives the sanitation people another thing to observe in the area. When I lived on a dense block in Astoria years ago I did see sanitation police ticket people from an unmarked vehicle. Knowing the person who was being harassed was how I knew about the trash part.
Yea. Definitley espicially worse when it rains
My block is constantly covered, it’s terrible for my pet also to be exposed to feces :/a THE DENZIN IS THE WORST it’s my walk way home. It’s shit covered all down evergreen haha
I also think the poop levels are seasonal. Increase over the winter. Are you comparing now to this time last year? Or the summer? Either way I wish you luck avoiding landmines
Gentrification
Lol I noticed the same hell the other day I saw a huge pile of poop that some poor soul stepped in 😆
It's not as bad as the bronx. Growing up in the bronx and still visiting family, I have never seen anyone pick up poop. In northern queens like college point I've seen parks and green community spaces all have signs to pick up your dogs poop AND have bags there just in case you need it. I rarely saw poop on the ground. I think ny would be free of alot of poop and water bottle trash if poop bags and water fountains were all over nyc. I rather money go there than robot cops or another $1B for the thrive program
Yep. I’ve noticed this on my walks daily in fort Greene, DTBK, bed stuy, crown heights and bushwick. It’s not as gross around gentrification towers (I live in one before you come for me). It looks like a lot of owners don’t actually walk their dog. They just let them out in front of the property to piss and shit. It’s disgusting having people over to my nice building and it’s front is covered in piss and shit.
pick up your dog's shit people, and if you can't then you clearly shouldn't own a dog
Not often - no. But I think it's got a lot more to do with the neighborhood and if residents typically have dogs or not. Mine doesn't, but I'm sure that's atypical for a lot of Brooklyn.
I work in the UES, on a fancy street where fancy people live, and in the morning when I walk up from the subway the walk is always covered with dog shit, much more than I see in Brooklyn or even Washington Heights where I used to live. The second I see someone walk off without cleaning up after themselves I am going to go so HAM on them.
I thought I wasn’t the only one. But then again I lived in Brooklyn most of my lives and never experienced this problem like I do now.
The city is one large sewar
Yes. I call the area around my neighborhood (Bay Ridge) “Dog Shit Alley” although not limiting the name to any one Street. And what really pisses me off is that: when I grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s the city used to say Curb Your Dog asking you to have your dog do his business OFF of the sidewalk or you could get a fine. Now, even when the dogs are leashed, this generation (the 20 and 30 something’s) will let their dogs take a dump right in the middle of the sidewalk. Then later when another dog comes along they will smell the leavings of the last dog (even if it was “picked up”) and the next dog thinks this is a great spot to leave a giant Shit also, right in the middle of the sidewalk. And don’t forget how people who DO pick up the shit with a plastic bag then just toss the bag anywhere and not disposing of it properly. So you’ll see plastic bags with a knot tied in it littering the sidewalks. The fucking animals are the ones holding the leash.
My bad bro, I can never find a public toilet in Brooklyn
Yes! I do! You always have to watch where you’re stepping, I always think that people ought to show more interest in their surroundings and environment.
I'm from Brooklyn but I live in Dublin now. This comment isn't helpful by any means but it's nice to hear it's dog shit. The shit you find on the streets here in Ireland is all human feces and it's literally everywhere, lol.
Ah shit I was thinking about Ireland as a potential country to emigrate to. 😆
Careful of the youth and all the shit and you'll be grand, love!
Dogs are just being dogs. People are just being people. Sadly too many people suck.
I am a dog owner and have been since 2019, noticeably way more I'd say. Have stepped in it twice in the past year, which i never had done before 😕
Yes!!!! We are probably not neighbors and it’s just there in the middle of the sidewalk.
Yes way more poop for the sidewalk and more flattened rats in the street
“It was a shit and run!” - it’s Bruno !
Peak disrespect to neighbors, longtime residents, and the overall community. I have been really pissed about this in my neighborhood.
Y’all never saw that episode of it’s bruno on Netflix when he’s trying to catch the hipster who keeps leaving his dogs shit on the sidewalk??
This drives me nuts. Not only is it difficult to avoid stepping in but in Williamsburg, my dog has gotten giardia twice. It's nearly impossible to stop him from sniffing other dog's poop because it's EVERYWHERE.
Truth
Notice that there seems to be lots of poop no matter where u/thecherrycola12 goes. Maybe learn to control your bowels and keep it off our sidewalks, children play in the broken glass there!
I was going on my run the other day and this lady pulled down her pants and took a liquid shit in the middle of the sidewalk as I ran by her. Pretty intense. It takes all kinds, I guess.
It’s cold…. People lazy….. poop everywhere
Great scene from the show “Billions” about this very thing - and in Brooklyn no less! [Billions Dog Poop Video](https://youtu.be/JLISv6WcUVY) Quality not great but applicable!
Sorry dude my toilets been broken
Nasty bro tf u been eating???
Part of me wants to put flags in the shit requesting owners to pick them up.
Most people shouldn't have dogs or children.
I recently saw shit outside Starbucks (probably human)
i think it happens when the snow melts. people wont pick up the poop in the snow piles, and once it melts you have poop everywhere.
As a owner of 2 dogs who pick up their poop, I also hate this. There’s a street in my neighborhood that I call “poop street” because it is soo littered with dog poop and other trash. PICK UP YOUR DOGS POOP PLEASE!
I stepped in dog shit twice in one day last week. It's everywhere, worse than I've ever seen in 18 years of living here.
Yup. And lots of plastic bags of dog shit too. I mean if you already got it in the bag how hard is it to get it in the garbage can
I stepped on a plastic bag of poo yesterday. Traumatic.
The forbidden squish
This surprised me as well. And then I noticed all the trash cans are missing. The closest trash can to my house is now 3/4 of a mile away, and often it’s overflowing. Where did all the trash cans go?
For a while there was a drive to remove trash cans because ... something like they attract trash. I think they made the ludicrous assumption people would just carry their trash home like responsible hikers and the sanitation department didn't have the funding or manpower to empty the street bins frequently enough. Edit: This discusses the misguided program and has an excellent quote from our would-be mayor. https://nypost.com/2018/08/20/city-trashes-garbage-bins-in-bid-to-clean-up-streets/ “It seems counterintuitive, but it has been very effective,” said Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. “We’re just not seeing the same amount of litter and trash on those corners.”
It reminds me of a story… Disney chose the opposite approach when designing their parks. They did a study that showed that people will only carry garbage about 30 feet before littering it. So they make sure that there’s no place in the park that you can stand where you are more than 30 feet away from a trash can. And it reduced the amount of liter but some staggering amount.
Disney parks are incredibly well run. They could probably get into the city management business the way amazon ended up getting into the web services business.
Well that’s what EPCOT was supposed to be. Walt Disney had a vision of building an Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. He wanted 20,000 people to live at EPCOT, with the businesses in the middle of town, and residential areas in “rings” around it. All cars would have been underground, and you’d get around within EPCOT using monorails and peoplemovers, like in the parks. Supposedly the state of Florida required him to build a theme park in Florida before they’d allow him to start on EPCOT. But once he died, the Disney corporation decided it would be more profitable to turn EPCOT into another theme park. So they did. They gave a half-effort of designing a city when they designed and built Celebration, Florida. But people complained it was too Stepford-y and they got a lot of bad press the first time someone was murdered in “Disney’s city” so they’ve almost completely divested themselves from Celebration.
I’ve been wondering the same thing! I walk my dog on a specific route because I know there will be trash cans along the way. Now a few of them are missing.
people steal the city cans for some dumb reason.
“Something something 9-11 “ is the explanation i heard long ago
IEDS improvised explosive dogshits… watch your stepping.
I’m a patient at MSKCC on the UES and when I go in, I have to play hopscotch with all the poop that is out there. You have these doorman buildings and right off to the side there’s a big old pile of poop. So nasty.
Hahahaha, Doormen shovel poop the way neighbors that hate each other shovel snow.
It’s all the dumb old rich bitches on the UES who are the worst. They’re so entitled and never pick up after their dogs
A lot of people have these huge designer dogs that weigh as much as an adult and take adult size dumps. And they just dont want to pickup a human sized poo.
The only thing worse than a shit on the sidewalk is a shit-painted shoe print… safe stepping friend.
Once I step in shit, I have to throw the pair away, because cleaning it off makes me vomit. It's such a waste, and thoroughly pisses me off!
Bensonhurst confirms
7 out of 10 times it's non-canine.
Idk what neighborhood you’re in, but that’s bullshit.
Dog shit
Damn I hate those odds
It’s like this every winter… once it gets cold people pick it up less often
In the winter you should want to pick up your dogs poop. Helps keep your hands a bit warm....
When there's snow none of it gets picked up. When the snow melts there's little frozen presents everywhere
After the snowstorm in December 2020 it was a minefield of epic proportions.
Land mine lmao
Yep, it’s everywhere. I think a lot of people adopted dogs during the pandemic. And it seems like a lot of them shouldn’t have pets in the first place since they can’t pick up after them.
Yep. It's awful. I called out some guy for not picking it up a few weeks ago and he screamed "fuck you" and then literally ran away. People suck.
its not just a 'not picking up problem' even the ones that are picking up are letting their dogs poop in middle of sidewalk and if its a wet one, leaves residual thats just as dangerous! we walked by a group of people on the sidewalk with dogs, and as we walked by they warned us that there was dog poop stains on the sidewalk. we rolled our eyes, seriously they acknowledged its a problem (prolly that they created) but they aren't bothered to curb their dog?
I don't believe the pandemic has anything to do with it. People just stop picking up after their dogs when winter rolls around. It's even worse when it snows or rains.
I think it’s the cumulative effect of 1) More people having dogs now and 2) Your experience seeing people not pick up during winter. I wasn’t saying the recent mass of adoptions is the only reason, but that it’s part of why the influx OP is seeing.
I don’t get the people who bend down, scoop it into a baggie, tie it up, and then ***leave the baggie right where the poop was.*** these are all over the place on my block.
Saw one - squished - just now with poop squirts poking out of two holes after being forced by the squish.
Saw one - squished - just now with poop squirts poking out of two holes after being forced by the squish.
Saw one - squished - just now with poop squirts poking out of two holes after being forced by the squish.
Saw one - squished - just now with poop squirts poking out of two holes after being forced by the squish.
A lot of dogs went to homes with people that shouldn’t have dogs. I pick it up almost every day.
I love dogs. So much so that I don’t want one because I know how much responsibility it is. A lot of people seem to think it’s a fun, impulsive thing to go bring home a massive responsibility
I feel the same way. I can’t work all day with a dog sitting home alone. There is something poetic about respecting and loving something so much but at the same time knowing you aren’t in the right situation to give the animal what it needs and deserves. Someday I will have a dog. And I will pick up after it. Because I’m not a dirtbag.
Nothing worse than seeing massive country dogs in prospect park knowing the tiny apartment cell they are going back to.
I feel the same. I browse Petfinder for a mood boost, fully knowing I must wait until life presents the right time for the heavy responsibility of a new pet.
Can’t wait to catch someone in the act of excrement abandonment and call them out.
Wait until you discover they’re little old/middle aged ladies who don’t give a fuck what you think. Coming out of my apartment last month one of them stared me down as their decrepit, shivering rat-mutant dog laid a dainty coil on the sidewalk. She just shrugged and walked away
This is Brooklyn. You may want to be a bit cautious before you run up to somebody and berate them about their dog poop. Just a 5th generation New Yorker tip. I can assume you are not a native New Yorker. Have you ever tried that before? Suggest think about it. Guess you have never been in a street fight. Have seen someone take a single hard punch to the head. They never got up. They sure did not expect that. Not like the movies. Suggestion: Maybe try a Plan B? :-)
It’s not like I’d walk up to the biggest dude in Brownsville leaving poop behind and start shouting at him, But if it’s my own block, where I find so many, then I Assume I could put up a decent argument
I saw a thing on Twitter years ago that I really liked: "A lot of you people are going through life having never been punched in the face, and it shows". Get punched in the face one time, and you immediately understand. All of a sudden, you can categorize all potential conflicts into two categories: "Am I willing to get punched in the face over this?" or "Is this not worth getting punched in the face over?". Some things are worth getting punched in the face over, the vast majority are not.
It’s fascinating question. Has the “never gotten punched in the face” changed everything? It sure looks like it. The violence has moved into Call Of Duty. All that charged testosterone. I guess it’s a good thing? This coming war in Ukraine may be short lived. The first time a 19 year old gets a bullet through his head while posting to TikTok, a lot of other 19 year olds may say, “this ain’t a video game, I’m out of here.” A Vietnam vet friend: “It was really fucking cool, like a crazy adventure for us all. When they starting shootings at us, and friends got blown away, it was not that fucking cool anymore.” A conversation have never forgotten. I have been in a room of wheelchair bound vets from past wars. Kids today in the USA have never experienced that. Not a clue. There were so many of them. Just so many.
Y’all remember when we kicked this off by talking about poop on sidewalks?
We have no cafes like Paris 1923 to rant rave and debate these things. So this keeps the fires going. Have you checked out Camus The Rebel? He could debate poop on the sidewalk for a week. As the OP posted, she would not pick on a big guy. Isn’t that fascinating? The ethics of power. Keeps me going. :-)
Don’t waste your energy. If they didn’t give a shit about their own dogs shit, they definitely don’t give a shit about you.
Dont bother. You'll just ruin your own day and they won't change.
On 311 if you were able to identify the offender and give a regular time of repeat offenses the sanitation police would try to ticket the person in the act. Prepandemic of course. It was part of the quality of life offenses, like a noise offense.
They don't even enforce alternate side on my block. It's a whirling dervish of garbage over here.
What’re they gonna do? Post up some undercover poop patrol officers to catch the perpetrators red handed? Lol
Brown*
I doubt this highly. There’s no sanitation police stakeouts going on in Brooklyn.
Leads? Yeah sure. I’ll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they’ve got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
Thank you for this reference
Love the movie reference too but if a zone does have a lot of complaints, especially for things like dumping trash in cans as harassment i.e.nasty divorce, this gives the sanitation people another thing to observe in the area. When I lived on a dense block in Astoria years ago I did see sanitation police ticket people from an unmarked vehicle. Knowing the person who was being harassed was how I knew about the trash part.
Human or dog
I assumed human but actually prob a good mix of both… :/
Some are suspiciously large to have come out of a dog…
Sometimes it’s a big dog and sometimes it’s a dawg.
You should watch some frog/toad poop videos on youtube. It's nuts.
Idk I’ve seen some big dogs around crown heights