A stinky step street has residents in Claremont Village taking the long way home.<\/p>\n
The stairwell connects East 169th Street from Clay Avenue at the top to Webster Avenue at the bottom, creating a shortcut for neighbors to cross the borough. However, residents say the stairs are regularly littered with trash. News 12 cameras saw bottles of broken glass, dirty diapers, busted bedframes, half-eaten food and more.<\/p>\n
Some residents say the situation makes them want to avoid the shortcut rather than climbing over garbage. One woman also brought up the need for additional streetlights to illuminate the stairwell she calls \u201cspooky\u201d once the sun goes down.<\/p>\n
The Department of Sanitation told News 12 its \u201cTargeted Neighborhood Task Force\u201d has been responsible for cleaning the stairs since 2022 and does so regularly, including ten times this year. The agency said, \u201cAll New Yorkers have a legal responsibility to put trash in its proper place \u2013 NOT on a public step street. Those who treat public spaces as their personal dumping grounds are violating the law and can be fined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stinky step street has residents in Claremont Village taking the long way home. The stairwell connects East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,4302,9,24,4303,63,129,131,130,4304],"class_list":{"0":"post-4098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-litter","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-department-of-sanitation","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-trash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","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=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}