A rat infestation in Bed-Stuy is causing so much concern that the U.S. Postal Service said they\u2019re pausing mail delivery to the apartment building.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s happening at a 4-story complex on Macon Street near Malcolm X Boulevard.<\/p>\n
USPS posted a letter inside of the building, informing tenants that conditions are unsafe for mail carriers. Tenants now have to go to the post office to pick up their mail.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It\u2019s] very frustrating,\u201d said Amara Fauntleroy, a tenant. \u201cI was so pissed. I was so upset.\u201d<\/p>\n
To make the mail matters worse, the letter from USPS stated that post-office pick-up is only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I can\u2019t make it?\u201d said Fauntleroy. \u201cI believe that [USPS] said that they hold it for up to 15 days [before returning to sender].\u201d<\/p>\n
Fauntleroy added that the building, which is owned by DCA 1 Apartments Inc., does not have enough bins and some of the ones that they do have are broken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to open the garbage can and a rat jumped out at me,\u201d said Fauntleroy.<\/p>\n
Tenants said that rats are ripping bags open, dragging out food and running into burrows found all across the yard.<\/p>\n
News 12 counted at least seven burrows on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to come in [the front yard] because they\u2019re scared, so they\u2019ll throw their [garbage] bags,\u201d said Fauntleroy. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m scared [rats are] going to come into our house,\u201d said Lisa, another tenant. <\/p>\n
The building received a summons from the Department of Sanitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite reaching out to management, despite reaching out to the super and maintenance, like nothing\u2019s been done,\u201d said Fauntleroy.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to management several times on Thursday and is waiting for a response. News 12 did see a maintenance worker cleaning the area that afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rat infestation in Bed-Stuy is causing so much concern that the U.S. Postal Service said they\u2019re pausing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-232346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232346","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=232346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}