IPNTA Newsletters

Sept/Oct 2003

Pet Owners: Let’s Respect Each Other and Our Community

By Ron Capozzoli

We’ve heard the Department of Sanitation is on the way to Tribeca to start handing out tickets for people not cleaning after their dogs. It’s at least a $50 ticket. Are you willing to risk it?

We’ve received so many complaints about tenants not curbing their dogs; actually lifting their dogs into the flower planters to defecate; tenants not picking up after their dogs; people throwing bread out of windows to birds, hitting people below; and one of the worst offenses of all—using the Plaza as a place to walk their dogs. Plaza tenants are furious and have to use their own time and energy to clean after someone else’s pets.

Similarly, we've received complaints about new problems created by people feeding pigeons on Greenwich Street. Some tenants feel the large pieces of bread that's left for hours on the streets lures rats, others are worried that feeding them in the vicinity of IPN causes health hazards and terrace roosting. There must be a reasonable solution to this situation.

(The birds cannot deal with large pieces of bread anyway, so offering it to them is not being kind.)

The birds go after the bread and trample the flowers, often snapping off the the flower heads, and crushing plants.

So let’s all respect each other. If you have pets, don’t let them defecate in our flower gardens, don’t use the plaza as a dog run, and please be careful about how you feed pigeons.

back to Newsletters Main Page