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.
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