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It’ s time to take out the
trash!
East Village locals and
lawmakers on Sunday de-
manded the city move the
garbage trucks it has been
parking on a residential
stretch for nearly a year de-
spite Mayor de Blasio’s
promise to fix the situation.
“It’s disgusting, it smells,
the smell lingers, it’s at-
tracting rats, it’s a quality-of-life issue ,and it needs to
be solved immediately,”
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D)
said at a press conference.
“We understand the city
needs to find a better solu-
tion, but find one, don’t come
moving into a neighborhood
and slowly destroying it.”
The Sanitation Depart-
ment has been parking
trucks along a stretch of East
10th Street between Firstand Second avenues since
September when it lost its
lease on a West Side garage.
De Blasio vowed at the
time to address the issue,
but residents say nothing
has changed.
“Last week, I had a rat run
across my foot. I lived here
for 20 years, and I’ve never
seen a rat” until the trash
trucks showed up, said Mar-
ian Caracciolo, who lives onthe corner of East 10th
Street and First Avenue. “I
thought it was a cat, and
then I realized it was a rat.”
Also at Sunday’s event
were Assemblywoman Deb-
orah Glick (D) and state
Sen. Brad Hoylman (D), who
are threatening to introduce
legislation to ban Sanitation
from parking trash trucks on
residential streets.
Sanitation and City Halldeclined on Sunday to give
a timeline for when the
trucks might find a new
home, saying the process
was slowed by Manhattan’s
“tight real-estate market.”
“The Department of Sani-
tation is committed to being
the best neighbors possible
at this location,” said
spokeswoman Dina Montes.
Khristina Narizhnaya
and Nolan HicksE. Village garbage trucks still ‘reeking’ havoc
Inside the city’s
worst NYCHA site
By LORENA MONGELLI
and NOLAN HICKSA West Harlem public-housing
complex is the most dilapidated
NYCHA site in the entire city, ac-
cording to records analyzed by
The Post.
The Samuel Apartments are in
such dire shape that the housing
authority will have to shell out
$286 million over the next nine
years to bring them up to code —
or an average of $431,000 for each
of the 664 units in the complex’s 40
low-rise buildings, the data show.
That’s more per unit than any
other NYCHA development.
“Rat holes, unleveled floors, toi-
let problems, rotten wood, leaking
water — there are lots of problems
that we usually end up taking care
of ourselves,” said 66-year-old res-
ident Denise Taylor. “The floors in
my kitchen are buckling. You can
feel it when you walk.”
Taylor’s daughter, Carmela Rod-
riguez, wants NYCHA’s new
$403,000-a-year chairman, Greg
Russ, to see the apartment for
himself.
“He needs to look at all the se-
niors living in this building,” she
said. “Even though the people who
live here are low-income, they’re
human as well.”
The complex’s whopping pro-
jected repair bill includes $
million for its mechanical systems,
$78 million for structural work
and $59 million for interiors.
The Samuel Apartments, which
opened in 1993, were developed
from century-old buildings that
fell into foreclosure in the 1970s.
Taylor’s unit, for example, is in a1910 building that once had a ser-
vants room, blueprints show.
The buildings were “gut-recon-
structed” into affordable housing
as part of a Mayor Ed Koch-era
program, according to city Board
of Estimate documents from 1989.
Complaints about leaking roofs,sinking floors and the plumbing
soon followed.
The apartments account for just
a fraction of the $38 billion that
NYCHA has said it needs to fix its
325 sites in the next decade.
The city hopes to pay for $24 bil-
lion by allowing private develop-ment on NYCHA land and selling
air rights, although that still leaves
a $14 billion gap.
“NYCHA remains committed to
securing funding after decades of
federal disinvestment into public
housing,’’ spokesman Michael Gi-
ardina told The Post.James Keivom