Keeping it Private: Homeowners Struggle With Life on NYC’s Private Streets (NY)

/ Owner - September 11, 2018

Twice a week, 71-year-old Douglaston, Queens, resident Peggy Kalesis packs her trash-filled garbage cans into the back of her SUV and drives half a block from her home.   She and her dozen Stuart Lane neighbors drop their trash in front of an understanding Depew Avenue resident’s home because Stuart Lane is one of the nearly 1,000 private streets across the five boroughs that doesn’t get its garbage picked up by the city.  “It’s horrible,” Kalesis said. “We do pay taxes. We feel like we’re not getting city services.”     Read the article………………

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