A rotting street in New York: the townspeople are shocked by the smell, sight and dirt in one of the districts

Neighbors are complaining about a couple of Chinese restaurants in the East Village that brazenly dump their garbage, including raw meat and bones, on St. Marks Place, reports New York Post.

“Rats and seagulls love this feast. Their trash usually lies for several days. The stench is unbearable, ”outraged 65-year-old Ian Fair, who lives across the street from the smelly landfill.

Szechuan Mountain House is a delight with Kung Pao chicken. And CheLi is famous for its Longjing shrimp, pork belly stew and smoked fish. However, eateries on the second floor receive a zero score for garbage disposal.

“This has been going on for over a year,” Fair said. The pavement on which the garbage is located is almost never washed by hand or even cleaned with a broom, soap and water.

“It’s all slop, remains, entrails, no matter what they serve. It's really disgusting. Now it's summer and with the onset of the heat, the smell gets even worse,” he said.

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Another local resident said that this affects air quality.

“I can't breathe, it's too heavy, dirty smell in here,” complained Helen Kim, manager of a nearby tattoo and piercing shop. “They always try to sneak in and dump trash in front of my stores,” she said.

Li Xu, manager of Szechuan Mountain House, said the restaurant is paying private carrier Metropolitan Recycling Inc. for garbage collection “every day, seven days a week”. But, according to him, sometimes they simply did not come or took away only part of the garbage.

Jan Lee, 24, from a Japanese pancake shop underneath the restaurants, said trash piles up once or twice a week and wipes out the business. A restaurant worker on a nearby block put the blame on garbage collectors who don't want to clean up.

Since April, the city's sanitation department has received 311 complaints about dirty conditions at 23 St. Mark's Place, as well as one for an illegal dump at 19 St. Mark's Place.

During the same period, the agency recorded five violations at 23 St. Mark's Place. And three violations at 19 St. Mark's Place, department spokesman Vincent Gragnani said.

Businesses are required to hire private orderlies to collect trash and recyclables, Gragnani said, and can be fined between $50 and $100 for improper disposal.

Metropolitan Recycling Inc. did not respond to messages.