An Upper West Side street has been turned into one hoarder’s personal junkyard — and area residents are fed up.
Chairs, bedspreads, books and other mounds of trash have been piling up — without intervention from the city — for months near 77th Street on Columbus Avenue.
“This is disgusting. It’s been more than a month since this garbage is here, probably since the summer — a long time,” Fazi Husain, a nanny who works in the neighborhood, told The Post. “It is getting bigger and bigger.”
Residents said the trash-filled eyesore is the property of a local man, who uses the block near the MS 245 school as his own personal storage unit and flea market.
The hoarder, who said that he is not homeless, insisted that he’s “not getting any complaints” about the sidewalk teeming with trash.“There are so many bigger problems in the city, people getting murdered and people want to focus on this?” he snapped.The man said that he’s trying to make a few bucks off the junk pile — and was parked up under a beach umbrella Monday trying to make sales.
“I am in the process of getting evicted,” he said.
Items reportedly left by an emotionally disturbed man lines the sidewalk between on the West side of Columbus Ave between West 76th and West 77th Street. William C. Lopez/NY PostChristopher Mills, 53, who lives across the street, said that he has called the cops “many times” to complain about the piles of junk lining both sides of the block to no avail.
“I don’t understand how he does it. I’ve seen cops talk to him and it’s been growing and growing and growing,” Mills told The Post.
A woman, who identified herself as a Department of Homeless Services worker, said that the man had been informed his junk is abutting the nearby school.
Piles of junk reportedly left by an emotionally disturbed man lines the sidewalk. William C. Lopez/NY Post“We’re trying to do the best we can. We’re trying to help him,” she told The Post.
The Department of Sanitation didn’t not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A 53-year-old Amazon delivery worker, who declined to give his name, said that sometimes the man tries to make a few bucks off the junk pile.
“Sometimes he puts a price on it but who buys this? I see him sitting sometimes here,” the delivery worker said.








