An OTBKB reader wrote in to lament the stinky, smelly and messy food garbage outside of restaurants around the Slope. I couldn’t agree with him more. The Slope is sometimes a very STINKY place.
I was wondering if you’ve ever posted or heard
from other people about the deplorable food waste problems in front of some
Slope restaurants. I live on 6th
Street and walk up Fifth Avenue to the Y most
mornings and far too often find nasty food waste strewn on the sidewalk.Coco
Roco is the worst, though hardly the only, offender. I don’t see this as
a problem of the carting company as it looks like the restaurants are the ones
poorly bagging the waste. In any event, it makes my morning walk a nasty
obstacle course and makes me wonder about the charms of our neighborhood.On the opposite end of the spectrum is Rachel’s, which
is out many mornings soaping and scrubbing their stretch of sidewalk.
I wrote him back to say that Mondays are often the worst. He said that he is generally shocked by the amount of litter strewn around particularly on Monday mornings in his section of the Slope (between Fourth and Fifth Avenues). "But the food waste is the most disgusting and stinky. I called 311 this morning to complain," he wrote.
In my experience, any bad smelling street in Park Slope pales in comparison to many areas in Manhattan. Walking through China Town on a garbage night is downright putrid.