EVG regular Salim notes that bags of trash have accumulated at several locations in Tompkins Square Park since Sunday.
He reported the garbage to the city via 311 on Monday and again today.
Meanwhile, the piles are growing...
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Reader report: Trash bags are starting to pile up in Tompkins Square Park
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Thanks for highlighting this Grieve was walking in the park last night and though well maybe it's prop trash for the 90's movie being filmed on Ave A or something but don't recall trash being oiled that high in the 90's or 80's or 70's or 60's for that matter
ReplyDeleteI walked some out-of-town visitors through the park last Saturday afternoon and I was embarrassed by the trash. Most of the trash I saw was just strewn along the sides of the walkways - not even in bags. I was surprised; our lil park is usually very well tended.
ReplyDeleteWhy can’t the NYC Parks department help to staff Tompkins Square Park (like all the other downtown parks?) the garbage piles up, the lunatics turn the bushes into their makeshift homes and more garbage piles up, the walkways are so beat up you trip and fall and break your ankle, metal barricades laying all over the place, down tree branches all over the walkways, and now lots of graffiti that makes no sense on the tiles by the Krishna tree! Most everybody that lives in this neighborhood and uses this park pays a lot of money to live here so why does our park look like a piece of shite???
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree. However the additional staff at neighboring parks like Washington Square and Madison Square are paid by their volunteer conservancies that have over a 1 million dollar endowment each. When we renovated the dog park at Tompkins, I had to help organize folks to raise most of the money ourselves. The park at large needs a similar push however like most things at Tompkins, it can devolve quickly.
DeleteYour rent/monthlies don't determine your right to a pleasant, clean, and usable park. Everyone deserves that.
DeleteTake walk further down on the LES. Tompkins looks like an oasis compared to Seward or Roosevelt parks
DeleteThe rats approve.
ReplyDeleteHave lots of people called 311 or the DOS? It's great to have a place to air our local issues but it's not going to change anything unless people actually do something about it. Pick up that phone now!
ReplyDeleteUse the 311 app
DeleteI’m impressed that the trash are in trash bags and no one or rat has opened them. Most likely a nonprofit group hosted a clean up and left the bags to be picked up by the Parks Dept staff. Or the Parks Sanitation truck was broken down or the designated Parks employees who are responsible for sanitation pick up might be out sick.
ReplyDeleteSo if someone is out sick at a business, someone else is usually called to replace them so that’s barely an excuse. For all the other improvements that are sorely needed in Tompkins I guess the park needs its own conservancy like so many other parks in New York, including Central Park Washington Square, etc. etc. but here in the so-called greatest city in the world, why does the parks department not have the money to staff this park properly and give it funding to at least fix the obvious bad problems? Until then…Rich people please step up now is the time to make your park nicer and livable.
ReplyDelete$150 million to recover $104,000 in fare-beating fines (see here: https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000/), not an extra penny for the parks!
ReplyDeleteState MTA runs subways and must address farebeating.
DeleteActually the City is spending huge amounts on “open streets” - the City should end “open streets” and spend that money on parks and playgrounds
People on this blog need to manage their expectations.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s meant by that remark, is enjoying a park in the heart of New York City without junkies, garbage, rats and more garbage swallowing you up too much to expect?
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