Mayor Mamdani’s New York has become the city that never sweeps.
Eight-foot-high piles of rat-infested trash are choking the streets around Gracie Mansion — while Hizzoner’s new home has gotten the white-glove shoveling treatment.
Mamdani has meanwhile crowed that he can’t “imagine how it could get better’’ in the city, even as more and more New Yorkers are blasting the lack of “collectivism” in the Big Apple.
The mayor’s Upper East Side neighbors are being forced to trudge through garbage-plagued streets, roaming rodents and mounds of snow tainted with dog pee a full week after Winter Storm Fern.
Blocks away, the sidewalks outside the lefty mayor’s digs on East 88th Street are squeaky clean.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw yesterday — a whole army of sanitation workers plowing and shoveling every bit of snow off of that side of the street,” local Nick Rivers griped to The Post on Sunday as he walked his black Lab along a littered sidewalk near the mayor’s residence.
“Clean as a whistle for the mayor,” Rivers said. “Look at this side.”
“This side” is marred by massive piles of garbage as high as 6 feet that have been building for days and attracting rats — even as Mamdani late last week patted himself on the back, claiming he’s keeping things on track.
Fourteen New Yorkers have died in the bitter cold since arctic weather blew into the city.
Other streets in his neighborhood are home to even higher piles of debris — some as tall as 8 feet.
“I’m new to the job,” the mayor said Friday. “I know the burdens will get heavier, but right now I struggle to imagine how it could be better.”
He should cross the street and ask his neighbors.
“Don’t get me started. I think his wife must have complained about the pee in the snow,” West 88th Street resident Attel said. “I don’t even look when I come out of the building.
“It’s gross!” he said. “The rats are inside the recycling bags.”
Another local added, “My street is lined with bags, many of them opened with crap all over the street.
“My daughter had to dodge a used sanitary pad.” --->READ MORE HERE
Even a top city ally of lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani has joined the massive chorus demanding Hizzoner tear down local vagrant shanties to move the homeless to safety and prevent them from freezing to death.
“Being homeless shouldn’t be a death sentence,” said Democratic Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, who readily endorsed Mamdani in last year’s election, to The Post on Sunday.
“You can’t let the people stay out there. These are people in crisis,” Richards said.
As The Post reported exclusively last week, Mamdani’s administration ordered city cops and sanitation workers to stop tearing down homeless encampments — just weeks before now 14 people have been found dead outdoors during the recent Arctic deep freeze.
At least eight of those found dead outdoors died from hypothermia, or from freezing to death.
Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, a Republican, joined Donovan in calling for Mamdani to reverse course.
“We said before that people will die. Now it looks like the policy is leading to more deaths,” Fossella told The Post.
He said the encampments are dangerous even during warmer weather because they are riddled with criminality and rampant drug use. --->READ MORE HERE
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