Seventh Avenue Stink Out

 Photo by Alice Proujansky via The Brooklyn Paper

So Seventh Ave is a shitshow. Literally. This after two City Council members failed to renew a street-cleaning contract that was drawn up because the Department of Sanitation reduced it's pick-up schedule from three times a week to two.

The contract with the Doe Fund, a non-profit organization that hires homeless men to work as clean-up crews, was passed over because it was deemed by Councilmen Steve Levin and Brad Lander as no longer "cost-effective or sustainable." Also, because the businesses on Seventh Ave no longer have a merchant association where the business tax revenue could be used to help pay for sanitation, we now have overflowing garbage cans. 

Here's a vivid description from the Brooklyn Paper of the sights and smells of this mess:

For months, trash cans have consistently overflowed — dripping fluids that smell like rotting Chinese food and funky frat boy socks — into the restaurant-lined strip.

And let's hear what Park Sloper Pam from Garfield Place has to say on the matter: 

I literally have to hold my nose when I walk down the street. It looks like the worst part of the South Bronx in the 1970s.

Nice Pam, but I know our FIPS'ters can do better than that. What do you guys think? Have any Seventh Avenue garbage nightmares to share? Go for it.