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Fecal Matter in the 7th Ave. B/Q station — Brooklynian

Fecal Matter in the 7th Ave. B/Q station

maryk
maryk
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
I've noticed this several times in the last couple of months, including yesterday and today - there has been a pile of excrement on the (closed off) steps towards the end of the train on Manhattan bound side of 7th Ave. B/Q station. I feel for the person who has to do this, and I feel for the person who has to clean this up, but I also feel for the subway riders who have to encounter this smell and sight on an increasingly regular basis. If you see it, please call 311 and report it! Maybe they'll do something about it, the more calls they get.

Call 3-1-1! It works (at least in theory).

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  • rhodamine
    rhodamine

    Subject: Re: Fecal Matter in the 7th Ave. B/Q station

    maryk wrote: I've noticed this several times in the last couple of months, including yesterday and today - there has been a pile of excrement on the (closed off) steps towards the end of the train on Manhattan bound side of 7th Ave. B/Q station. I feel for the person who has to do this, and I feel for the person who has to clean this up, but I also feel for the subway riders who have to encounter this smell and sight on an increasingly regular basis. If you see it, please call 311 and report it! Maybe they'll do something about it, the more calls they get.

    Call 3-1-1! It works (at least in theory).
    lol... i can see it now... "excuse me, 311? theres poop in the subway station" immediately followed by them laughing and hanging up on you. :lol:
  • jgregorie
    jgregorie
    Ive seen the little turd pile myself from time to time. Its a perfect place for a homeless person to take a crap.

    As far as the person cleaning it up is concerned, its a union job and he or she probably makes more than you.

    And me for that matter.
  • rhodamine
    rhodamine
    jgregorie wrote: As far as the person cleaning it up is concerned, its a union job and he or she probably makes more than you.
    with a starting pay of $28k/year, a nycta janitorial position isnt the best money-making prospect, no...
  • sir_eccles
    sir_eccles
    rhodamine wrote: [quote=jgregorie]As far as the person cleaning it up is concerned, its a union job and he or she probably makes more than you.
    with a starting pay of $28k/year, a nycta janitorial position isnt the best money-making prospect, no...

    You're forgetting the free health insurance and all those other benefits they keep striking for.
  • rhodamine
    rhodamine
    sir_eccles wrote: You're forgetting the free health insurance and all those other benefits they keep striking for.
    so that bumps their net pay up to about, what, $30k? i mean, i love to hate on the mta as much as the next guy, but its pretty inaccurate to paint the janitors as cushy, well-paid union workers. just saying. id strike too if i made under $30k when the average household incomes in brooklyn are $41,406 (median)/$60,020 (mean) [ca. 2007]... or, id look for other work besides janitoring for the mta, hahaha.
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    I don't even think they actually touch it. They use a hose.
  • christina
    christina
    Glad I only go back to that stop from Manhattan, but never leave from it...
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
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  • peanutbuttercup
    peanutbuttercup
    fecal matter is a really polite way to say...a pile of shit
  • pima
    pima
    This has been going on in this station for months, and the MTA employees don't do anything, even after complaining and calling the station manager.

    As to how much they get paid, that is not the issue. It is someone's job to keep the station clean. Otherwise, don't take the job.

    In general, the city subway stations / platforms are filthy. It would seem most of the MTA employees do not have any pride in their work.
  • jack krohn
    jack krohn
    I've always wondered why the expression is "take a crap". After all, isn't it more accurate to say that the person "left a crap"?
  • spain
    spain
    My boyrfriend and I saw a homeless guy taking a crap on the entrance of the 7th ave Q/B station not that long ago. It was so gross and the guy on the booth was watching it without blinking. When we told him, he said he had eyes and told us it wasn't our problem. It was around 9pm...they next they the giant shit still there...DISGUSTING!
    They should have public bathrooms at least...so they don't need to share their crap with the rest of us.
  • thelambchop
    thelambchop
    speaking of the 7th ave station agents, what is up with the lady who works most weekday mornings? i think at least twice a week i see her in crazy fights with pretty normal seeming people. it happens so often i've started to feel sorry for her - like she must be pretty freakin' miserable in order to act that way so consistently.
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    Spain wrote: My boyrfriend and I saw a homeless guy taking a crap on the entrance of the 7th ave Q/B station not that long ago. It was so gross and the guy on the booth was watching it without blinking. When we told him, he said he had eyes and told us it wasn't our problem. It was around 9pm...they next they the giant shit still there...DISGUSTING!
    They should have public bathrooms at least...so they don't need to share their crap with the rest of us.
    A homeless person should not have to crap in the subway. There are (somewhat) public bathrooms in restaurants and stores just up the stairs from that station. There are bathrooms in Prospect Park , the library and in the Atlantic/Pacific Subway station. You can use the bathroom at any hospital's ER or a police station 24/7. The choices are not great buy all better than the public areas of the subway.

    If a person is taking a crap in the mezzanine level of a busy subway station at 9pm he is in need of and asking for help. If taking a shit in front of a token clerk is not a scream for help, I don't know whit is.

    The token clerk should have called the police, not (only) to arrest him, but to get him off the streets and the care he needs.

    The system has failed. Especially if that shit stayed there overnight!
  • sir_eccles
    sir_eccles
    Jack Krohn wrote: I've always wondered why the expression is "take a crap". After all, isn't it more accurate to say that the person "left a crap"?
    I quite like the phrase "pinching off a loaf" as in "oh no, the turtle's head is touching cloth, time to pinch off a loaf".
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