You may have noticed the activity around the Fifth Street side of the Con Ed substation, a popular roosting spot for pigeons along Avenue A.
For the past 10 days or so, workers have coned off about a quarter of the block here between Avenue A and Avenue B to navigate the two cranes on the scene.
According to one of the workers, the crew is erecting an enclosure to prevent pigeon droppings from befouling the equipment below ...
Not sure exactly what this structure will look like... for now, the workers are still putting in steel supports...
Updated 8 a.m.
The graffiti scrub team was out early this morning power-washing the building... someone had tagged DBDBDBDBDBDBDB from Sixth Street all the way across Avenue A...
The pigeons will love to perch on those steel supports!
ReplyDeleteSomeone drops bread crumbs every day in the dirt rectangle near the bus stop. That attracts the birds and is the main cause of this problem. I have tried to find out who this person is, but have never seen him or her.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing you can do about people who put out bread crumbs and all the other food waste for city's critters to dine on. They all have mental health issues. There's nothing you can do about it.
ReplyDeleteThe Breadcrumb Brigade is the reason why this city is encrusted under a thick layer of bird crap and infested by rats. They seem to have an endless supply of bread, which they probably get for free by dumpster diving or from food pantries. If we used all these surveillance cameras to track them down we could probably cut down on the problem, but then the cops would have to spend less time ticketing cyclists. So forget about it.
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