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NYC NEIGHBORHOOD TURNED INTO GIANT TOILET AS MIGRANTS LITTER PARK WITH POOP,
LEAVE CUPS OF URINE ON ‘DOORSTEPS’

By Matthew Sedacca

Published Jan. 20, 2024, 1:20 p.m. ET

Migrants outside an East Village intake center have been crappy neighbors.

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Since November, thousands of adult migrants have waited outside the former St.
Brigid’s School on East 7th Street, and overflow into Tompkins Square Park, to
score a bed in the city’s shelter system after their 30-day and 60-day stay
limits expired.

But s–t hit the fan – and the sidewalks and streets – last week when the city
Parks Department yanked a trio of Port-a-potties from the park.

The loos had become so filthy that workers gave up on maintaining them,
according to locals.

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“There was a cup of what I thought was somebody’s discarded hot chocolate that
turned out to be not hot chocolate,” said street cleaner John Cashvan.

“On warmer days, it can smell like a toilet over here — and not a well
kept-toilet.” 

In the past week, locals and volunteers said they’ve spotted cups filled with
urine around the park’s entrance near the former school, along with human-sized
poop in tree beds and between parked cars.

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One migrant waiting for a shelter bed said he and others have been blocked from
using the bathrooms at an East Village intake center. Helayne Seidman


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A street cleaner said he found a cup filled with human poop near where migrants
have been congregating in the park. Helayne Seidman

“Most of them want to pee in plastic cups rather than the ground, and they leave
them on people’s door steps,” said longtime resident Garrett Rosso, 64, who said
he spotted a dozen cups filled with urine. 

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One migrant had no problem taking an al fresco whiz on a tree Wednesday
afternoon as The Post surveyed the stomach-churning scene.

The southeastern part of the park was also littered with spilled food and
plastic containers.

“I’ve cut this part of the park out of my [daily] walk because of the filth,”
said neighbor Michael Bartley, 73. “There’s several thousand people [coming to]
this end of the park with no place to use the bathroom.”

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Locals said the port-a-potties were removed last week because they had become
too difficult to clean and maintian. Stefano Giovannini

“If they’re going to bring them here, [the city should] have some Sanitation
people here,” he added. “Cops are here? Big f–king deal.”

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, a former Lower East Side resident, ripped
Mayor Adams for welcoming migrants with open arms, only for his administration
to funnel them into neighborhoods without providing any clear aid or plans for
handling the sudden influx of hundreds — or even thousands — of people.

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“He’s the swagger man with no plan. Everything he does, it its a knee jerk
reaction with no follow up,” Sliwa said.

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Since the port-a-potties were removed, locals said they’ve found cups filled
with urine dotting the area. Stefano Giovannini

“What are you doing in the neighborhood to make it easier for them to absorb
[the migrants]?”

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Susan Stetzer, district manager for Community Board 3, said Parks workers
removed the Tompkins Port-a-potties last week because they were being trashed
“to the point they could not be maintained.”

The portable bathrooms were installed in Tompkins last year to provide relief
while the park’s field house is undergoing an 18-month renovation.

“The bathrooms are an issue. We’ve tried to engage administration regarding this
[but] we have not as of this moment been successful,” she said, adding that
migrants continuing to congregate outside in freezing temperature was a
“humanitarian crisis.”

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The southeast section of Tompkins had become so filthy that Michael Bartley said
he cut it out of his daily walks. Helayne Seidman

The migrants, mostly from West Africa and South America and who are among the
more than 100,000 who’ve been in the city’s care since spring 2022, said they’ve
been blocked by intake center staff from using the building’s restrooms.

“When you want to go to the toilet [at the re-intake center], sometimes people
tell you no,” said one man who gave his name as Abu Salim. “You have to go out
here.” 

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A Parks spokesperson said port-a-potties are difficult to maintain and clean,
but that a public restroom operated by the agency was available at McKinley
Playground roughly 7 minutes away.

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A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said they were aware about complaints
regarding a lack of showers and bathrooms, but added that many migrants are
choosing to line up when they do not have to. Many are sleeping outside and
standing on line despite space at short-term holding centers.


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