Dog Poop Complaints Pile Up In Central Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS, NY — Central Brooklyn is on pace to see a banner year when it comes to doggo BMs, city data show.

In just three months, the Brooklyn neighborhoods have piled up about a third of the dog poop complaints sent to 311 in all of 2022, according to the data.

Specifically, Central Brooklyn residents sent 55 complaints in five ZIP codes — 11226, 11213, 11225, 11216, 11238 — that only saw 173 complaints in all of 2022.

The 11226 zip code covering part of Prospect Lefferts Gardens saw the second-most complaints in the entire city with a whopping 25. Since January 2022, 60 complaints have been sent in the zip code.

This turd of a trend parallels citywide data that show New York has already received 800 complaints, compared to roughly 600 in the same span last year, 311 data show.

The brown wave prompted city sanitation officials this week to mount an ad campaign aimed at rep-poo-bates who don't pick up after their pups.

"Don't Leave _ _it On The Sidewalk," is the campaign's scatological slogan.

Last year was already a messy time too, as New Yorkers pushed out exactly 2,100 complaints about dog waste on sidewalks, 311 data shows.

Sidewalk poop can be frustrating. One corner between Crown Heights and Bed Stuy — on Troy Avenue and Herkimer Street — inspired particular poop-fueled rage, prompting four complaints in just over a week.