It was two years ago. Morningside Heights resident Carl Mahaney was walking with his kid to the first day of school, when they came across heaps of trash bags lying on a sidewalk.
“The rats would come from where the rats come from, and they would just tear the bags apart, Mahaney said.
The trash was their late-night snack, perhaps an early breakfast. An all-you-can-eat buffet. And Mahaney was fed up. So, naturally, he took to X, which was called Twitter at the time, and tagged his district councilmember.
“What are we going to do about this? Like, parents and families shouldn’t have to deal with this on their way to school,” he remembered feeling at the time.MOREE PHOTOS👇👇
