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Commuters waiting for the bus have been tossing their trash on the sidewalk and lawn in front of Rosanna Gennarelli's Bronx home — leaving her to face hundreds of dollars of littering summonses.
The city has repeatedly fined the 51-year-old for violations including "scattered bottles, cigarette packs, paper bags, pieces of paper, tissue wrappers and other debris in the front yard,” hitting her with $300 tickets as recently as Nov. 14 and Nov. 19. She blames the trash on the bus stop: “I fight [the tickets] because I refuse to pay for something that isn’t my fault,” said Gennarelli, who moved into the house on East Tremont Avenue between Philip and Randall avenues in 1996, and has had problems with litter since the city established a bus stop in front of her house nearly a decade ago.
Two years ago, Gennarelli purchased a trashcan for the bus stop and locked it to a pole, but according to the Bronx Times, "when the city Department of Sanitation stopped by to take the trash, the trashcan was unlocked and stolen." The agency apparently only allows trashcans at corners — not mid-block.
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this is bloomberg nickel and diming the middle class.
he's going to amp up the tickets and fines.
Mid-block trashcans? Oh the horror.
Bloomberg will kill the middle class. He is so out to touch in his upper ease side townhouse
The real root of the problem is low-rent trash littering. People are losers. The non-losers seem to be an exception.
Couldn't have said it any better.
You guys are crazy, Bloomberg is exactly the kind of mayor that thinks this stuff is ridiculous. This is bureaucracy at work, not to mention lazy ass bus riders who don't think twice about throwing garbage on someone's lawn. Stay classy, Bronx residents!
I can't believe that Bloomberg is doing this again! He got kicked off his last busline for littering so now he's moved into the Bronx?! Argh. Bloomberg! This! And! That! BLOOOOOOMBEEEEEEERG!!!!!
Reminds me of the 6 year old street defacer that the lovely city agencies decided to ticket.
I'd move out of that house if at all possible. Who needs the hassle and with a bus stop in front? Get out of there.
that's exactly what the mayor is trying to do.
$300 tickets is insane. Ms. Gennarelli, I assume you're a middle class homeowner, get yourself a video surveillance system. Please see that the mayor does not care about you.
SOMEONE would be living in the house, and the problem would still exist.
It's grossly unfair for a citizen to be ticketed for the lack of police enforcement of littering laws. Sure, the police have some important stuff to do and are chronically short staffed, but that doesn't change that the police aren't stopping this littering from happening. But then I have to stop and reflect on the many, many times I've seen people throw shit on the ground while policepeople looked on.
That said, the littering is the fault of selfish, lazy people who shouldn't NEED police to make them not do it.
poor people deserve the squalid conditions they live in. if bloomberg should do anything it's eliminate all gov't assistance programs.
You're a fucking retard. That area is solidly middle class, with single-families selling for at least half a mil. Only problem is the projects on the other side of the expressway. They're probably the ones leaving their garbage on the ground. Know your shit before you talk.
So you're in agreement then. If the projects were eliminated this wouldn't be as big an issue. Good. Down with poor people.
This happens in all areas. When I lived in Bay Ridge there was a bus stop in front of the house, and everyone waiting for the bus was well-dressed and gainfully employed, commuting to their jobs in Manhattan. They left bottles, coffee cups and wrappers of all kinds on the sidewalk and on our stairs, and the garbage would blow down the driveway in front of the garage door.
If I was still there I would sit outside and make sure everyone cleaned up after themselves. Not poor, but just inconsiderate animals.
every morning i see people throw wrappers on the ground while waiting at my bus stop in brooklyn (oddly enough sometimes the wrapper from the metrocard they bought at the bodega). it's so lazy and disgusting, and the corner is 20 feet away. trash cans or not... people have no manners. a trash can isn't going to solve her problems. they should be ticketing the litterers!
People are assholes, some in this thread as well. She should sit there with a paintball gun and tag the fuckers that litter in front of her house
Honestly - what in the world does the case of one individual stuck in a bureaucratic loophole between DSNY, DOT and MTA jurisdictions, based decades-old regulations, have to do with the current mayor and his policies? Really what? This is arcane minutia and exactly what community boards are for - why did CB10 approve the bus stop without consulting with affected property owners?
Raise the fines for littering. Hit these dirtbags, who think it's okay to throw their trash anywhere, hard in the wallet. $1,000 fines for littering will clean up the city real quick. It's always the same people I see throwing trash on the ground in subway stations or the streets. Hint: they're always 'non-white'. That's not racism, it's just the truth.
It's time to call SHAME ON YOU. Doesn't matter if there's a garbage can there or not. The monkeys of New York were never taught how to use them.