The woman and her bird-covered companions are terrorizing locals on the Lower East Side by dumping seeds and food scrapes in small parks and nearby areas, and making their beloved communal spaces. It has been transformed into a rotten outdoor buffet.
Crapfest unfolds almost daily at Ahearn Park, with thousands of birds flocking to feasts of birds abandoned by at least two elderly women and one man, with birds turning to concrete, benches and unsuspecting passersby. It leaves behind shit. The residents crouched.
“The pigeons aren't running away from people – the pigeons are taking over the park,” 51-year-old Brian Grasso told the Post, where feeders are one or more 18 pounds a day in the park between East Broadway and the Grand. As I estimated it would be loading a bird bag.
Russell Moss, 63, claimed that the unfamiliar feeding sessions drove older people out of the park and were not sitting on the bench due to a permanent layer of bird droppings.
“If you want to sit, you're probably sitting on a pigeon poop. You don't know in Central Park!” he smoked.
The video, recorded and shared in November, shows a silvery woman throwing forage from a yellow bag in her cart while surrounded by hundreds of pigeons. She ignored the person behind the camera.
According to a spokesman for the Grasso and the department, Parks Enforcement Police ultimately issued a subpoena to the woman in January after months of complaints.
However, this movement appears to just ruffle the feeder's wings. Over the past few weeks, residents said they discovered sticky, sticky rice that was painted over the ground in the park, along with piles of bread, noodles and cabbage.
“It's belligerent,” said 57-year-old Stuart Rosenberg while walking the dog Sherman. “Now, it's about asserting territory.”
On Wednesday morning, at least eight birdseed patches dot the concrete, torn one slice and roll of fallen bread, along with piles of peanuts and slices and rolls of torn bread, a pair of dives and a pair of dives. It attracted a pair of mice.
Across the street, a long line of birds, about 20 yards, was dumped along the fence at Solrain's playground.
“This has to stop – that's a bad thing,” Roberto Gonzalez said.
The feeding frenzy places Gonzalez, 48, on a hundred dollar car washes to prevent bird poop from ruining the appearance of his car.
“I'm pooping all over the food and I hate that,” he added. “It eats through paint. It leaves a spot!”
Many residents also said they feared the pigeons might report avian flu that was linked to their deaths in Louisiana earlier this year. On Friday, Gov. Hotchul announced that Weschster County and Long Island were a week after inspectors discovered seven cases of avian flu on sites in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. It was announced that it will be closed.
Dr. Jennifer Bradgood, a wildlife veterinarian at Cornell University, said the current strain of avian influenza, which has been circulating among American wild birds since 2022, is not linked to pigeons in New York.
She added that winged pests are terrible at infecting the virus even when they are infected because they don't have enough virus to make other animals sick.
“Avian flu has this incredible ability to adapt to new species. So, I won't reveal it from future possibilities, but people today should not be afraid of pigeons,” she said. I said that.
Parks Department spokesman Kelsey Jean Baptist said the agency's PEP executives will continue to patrol and educate park associations on its feeding rules.
