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Citizen complaints of the day: Rubbish fiestas across the city

By adamg on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 10:24am

Columbus Avenue slobsColumbus Avenue slobs.

It's as if we've been hit by a hurricane of slobbery. Citizens Connect this morning is just filled with reports of mounds of filth and vermin, including:

  • 774 Columbus Ave., Roxbury: "Every week, Residents of 772, 774, and 776 Columbus throw loose trash on the sidewalk. Makes it difficult for garbagemen to pick up everything, so there is usually lots of trash left behind. (worse than usual because many are probably moving on Sept 1)."
  • Huntington Ave., Mission Hill: "Student moving trash all up and down Huntington Ave from Brigham circle to S. Huntington corner."
  • 22 Batterymarch, downtown: "The sidewalk is stained and usually covered in rotting food, bird feces, feathers, avian flu, and pigeons."
  • Downtown Crossing Red Line platforms: "Dead cockroaches are littered all over." Ed question: Well, better than if they were still alive, no?
  • The strip mall on American Legion Highway in Roslindale: "Rubbish fiesta on Legion."
    • Neighborhoods: 
    Downtown
    Roslindale
    Roxbury
    Topics: 
    The T
    Free tagging: 
    students
    Red Line
    Downtown Crossing
    Mission Hill
    Huntington Avenue


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    Comments

    By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 10:31am.

    Amazing that they can tell that the sidewalk is covered in avian flu.

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    By Sarcastic Sam on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 10:38am.

    Wow, who knew there was a lab near Mr. Dooley's, where they have identified the avian flu virus being dumped right there on the sidewalk!

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    By MattyC on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 11:30am.

    You can see it right there. Big, lumpy pile marked BIRD FLU and then crossed out with a Sharpie like we don't know what is in there.

    The nerve of some people.

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    By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 12:01pm.

    It says ACME BIRD FLU

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    By Ishiro Honda on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 11:35am.

    Is anybody else noticing those huge cockroaches, what people call "water bugs" or "palmetto bugs"? I've seen a few on subway platforms (Govt Center and State that I can remember) and one on the street in the Back Bay. I used to run into them occasionally when I lived in NYC and regularly in St Louis but this summer is the first that I've seen them in Boston. Let's hope they're not taking up permanent residency.

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    By Michael Kerpan on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 12:25pm.

    > Is anybody else noticing those huge cockroaches, what people
    > call "water bugs" or "palmetto bugs"?

    Within days of moving there we spent a fortune on plastic (or glass) containers for any food items they could eat their way into.

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    By anon on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 1:13pm.

    Giant roaches/Palmetto bugs were a problem in the Harvard dorms twenty years ago, so they certainly aren't new to the area. Super creepy - they run towards you instead of away when disturbed!

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    By adamg on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 7:05pm.

    When Natick came under attack from giant Madagascar cockroaches.

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    By Hillary on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 12:45pm.

    I've reported those Columbus Ave. addresses before, too. They are unstoppable, apparently.

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    By BrainDali on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 1:15pm.

    neighboring apartment building in Roxbury, building management literally just pushes piles of bags of trash onto street night before trash pick up and kids from the building playing outside throw old furniture/what have you all over the street all night long. That and the recylcing barrels have trash in them so the recycling guy leaves them and then the thing just sits outside all week stinking. repeat week after week. pigs.

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    By Allstonian on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 2:16pm.

    #1-15 Linden Street in Allston, too - it's been like that for years and it's disgusting. No barrels ever, just bags & loose trash piled all over the wide sidewalk, week in and week out. When the city distributed the giant recycling barrels, they used those for trash, but then those disappeared and they've gone back to bagged trash.

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    By BlackKat on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 1:24pm.

    I just don't understand why those buildings don't have dumpsters out back. Or barring room for such in the alley/courtyard behind the buildings, at least some form of covered bins.

    If Inspectional Services was on the ball (probably not) the monthly fines would be more than it would cost for Laidlaw or some other commercial rubbish hauler to come once a week.

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    By BrainDali on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 3:18pm.

    This particular has no truck approachable back or side, only the front. There is a nasty alley along the side of the building where is trash is stored all week, and if my eyes are not fooling me it also looks like they are keeping even more trash in an unoccupied basement level apartment. Piggy. Piggy. Piggies.

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    By anon on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 6:04pm.

    The giant roaches are a delicacy for the CHUDS who live in the maze of abandoned subway tunnells.

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    By BostonUrbEx on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:15am.

    "Maze" of abandoned tunnels? Hardly. I sure do wish, though. *drifts into dream land*

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    By Selkie on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:14pm.

    Rubbish Fiesta? I love it!

    Boston's annual September 1st rubbish fiesta, celebrated throughout the city with impassable sidewalks, overflowing bins, piles of distressed fiberboard furniture fragments, the festive glitter of smashed glass in the street and more soiled smelly couches than you can shake a stick at.
    I got these pictures last night and this am (on my way to the bus).
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/selkie30/sets/7215762...

    Between the bedbug concerns and the aggressive trash pickers, (and people using craigslist and freecycle to get rid of stuff) Christmas in Allston just isn't what it once was.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.

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