A dirty problem is stinking up neighborhoods everywhere in the city.<\/p>\n
Too many dog owners are not cleaning up after their pets – creating an obstacle course on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Since the snowstorm on Jan. 25, complaints about dog waste left in the streets seem to be on the rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been really bad and it\u2019s just getting worse I feel like,\u201d said Nick, a Sunset Park resident. \u201cI don’t know if people thought maybe the snow would melt it away or it would be covered but that obviously is not what happened.”<\/p>\n
Residents near 49th Street in Sunset Park have also deemed the area one of the poopiest areas in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Not only is it a hassle to watch your every step, but it\u2019s giving dogs and their pet owners a bad reputation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a guy come up to me and say that he thinks dogs should be banned from the city,\u201d said one dog owner.<\/p>\n
In the city, it’s a $250 fine for people who don\u2019t scoop up the poop, but of course that’s if people are caught in the act.<\/p>\n
The issue is not just in Sunset Park – it’s been the topic of discussion all over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dirty problem is stinking up neighborhoods everywhere in the city. Too many dog owners are not cleaning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7040,6530,7003,9,24,63,7125,59394],"class_list":["post-140580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cleanup","tag-dogs","tag-fines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sunset-park","tag-toxic-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}