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# Garbage Gazette: That Grassy Patch Ain’t For Garbage
- URL: https://bklyner.com/garbage-gazette-that-grassy-patch-aint-for-garbage-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-03-05T18:48:07.000Z
- Updated: 2012-03-05T18:48:47.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: 7-11, Department of Sanitation, garbage, garbage gazette, knapp st, quality of life, Trash, voorhies ave, #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/garbage.jpg "garbage")

A reader sent in the above photo over the weekend, showing a former sidewalk tree well that has taken on a new life as some sort of insatiable garbage filtering organism.

It looks pretty gross to us, but the reader provided a rather succinct description that hammers home just how nasty this is: “It stinks like atrophying, rotten shit in the area.”

Well, it *is* on Voorhies Avenue, near the 7-Eleven on Knapp Street and across the street from the shit factory sewage treatment plant.

Regardless, this is something we’re always seeing in the area – tree wells that local businesses, homeowners and the city have failed to maintain, and which collect cups, bags, cigarettes and whatever other crap uncaring individuals drop on the streets.

A little tip to the city and property owners: the group of [children who cleaned up a stretch of East 14th Street](/photos-children-honored-for-east-14th-street-cleanup/) have found that planting flowers and other niceties in these wells has resulted in less litter found in them. So summon up some neighborhood pride and buy a freakin’ bulb, would ya?