New York City is coming to grips with the severity of the migrant problem faced by border cities, with a sewage crisis casting a pervasive toilet-like stench across neighborhoods.
For years, sidewalks and parks in San Francisco have been used as impromptu bathrooms.
The issue reached a new level when the city realized it would require $1.7 million to install a single public toilet.
With more than 170,000 migrants arriving in New York since spring 2022, according to Newsday, the city is facing a problem similar to San Francisco’s.
According to a Jan. 20 New York Post report, New York City’s Tompkins Square Park has been transformed into one giant toilet, after the city decided to whisk away three port-a-potties that became too difficult to clean.
Little did they know, this move would cast a darker shadow.
Worn down by the agonizing wait for a coveted spot in the local shelter, migrants have now turned the park into an improvised relief area.
“There was a cup of what I thought was somebody’s discarded hot chocolate that turned out to be not hot chocolate,” said street cleaner John Cashvan, according to the Post.
“Most of them want to pee in plastic cups rather than the ground, and they leave them on people’s doorsteps,” resident Garrett Rosso told the newspaper.
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