NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – People living in the East Village can’t stand the site, noise and smell of garbage trucks that have been parked on their street since last year.
The trucks are parked on East 10th Street, between First and Second avenues, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. and all day on Sundays.
“It’s a bunch of garbage trucks,” a three-year resident of the neighborhood said. “I don’t think anybody loves the idea of having them always here.”
He said the noise alone is bad but the smell, especially in the warmer months,” is “overpowering.”
The trucks had been parked at a garage on the West Side until the city lost a lease at the location last year.
Now two state lawmakers—Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Deborah Glick—want to ban garbage trucks from parking on city streets overnight.
“To have these trucks on the street in a residential area just doesn’t make any sense,” Hoylman said.
Local leaders have been making a stink about the garbage trucks for months. This summer, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney led an effort to force the de Blasio administration to move the trucks somewhere else.
Mayor de Blasio said last year that he doesn’t want the trucks parked on city streets.
The Department of Sanitation says it will need to use the street until it finds a new garage space.