A Kips Bay man wants to stop fanatic pigeon feeders who are creating a bird-seed buffet in his neighborhood .
“ The noise, disturbance, scattered seed, and feces are all invasive to the tenants on the block and pigeon feces is linked to numerous diseases, ” says a petition started by Christofer Holland, who lives on East 26th Street. It had garnered 62 signatures as of Saturday morning .
Holland told The Post that one or two people who live around the corner on East 27th Street come by every afternoon and disperse dame source in an vacate tree stone near his construct.
“ I fair want peace and quietly and these dirty birds off my sidewalk, ” Holland said .
In anticipation of the day by day feast, pigeons line the ledges of nearby buildings ready to pounce .
On Wednesday, one of the pigeon lovers cursorily threw down bird seed on East 26th Street and scurried away as dozens of birds descended .
A group of pigeons wait on top of a building on East 26th Street and Lexington Avenue before a feeder arrives to dump seeds. Helayne Seidman
One of the alleged pigeon feeders leaves after dumping bird seeds on an empty tree pit. Helayne Seidman
“ It ’ s oklahoma if you ’ re going to feed them, but 1,000 of them at a time ? I think that ’ s a little excessively much, ” said Tony Lopez, a construction overseer on East 26th Street who said the pigeons poop on his car and roost on fire escapes.
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Another neighborhood resident said pigeons are besides being fed on East twenty-seventh Street and when they circle the area it ’ s like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock ’ s “ The Birds. ”
“ If they ’ ve barely thrown tip out, literally we have 50, 60, 80 pigeons on the sidewalk, ” the nonmigratory said. “ They ’ ra flapping about in your face. You ’ ve never seen such adipose tissue pigeons in your life. ”
Kips Bay resident Christofer Holland claims pigeon feeders are constantly feeding the birds.
not everyone is squawking about the overfed birds. Holland ruffled feathers when he posted a link to his prayer on the NextDoor site .
“ I love pigeons. They are native New Yorkers, ” one woman wrote .
One commenter said his wife feeds pigeons to calm her anxieties .
City animal lovers have long defended giving food to wildlife. A 2019 Parks Department marriage proposal to ban feeding pigeons and squirrels led to an cry.
Pigeons will line nearby buildings to wait for the food left in the arena. Helayne Seidman
The city doesn ’ t take 311 complaints about pigeon feed, but has logged 160 gripes about pigeon stern or olfactory property from Jan. 1 through Wednesday, March 23. The Upper West Side, Gramercy Park, Bay Ridge and Bushwick generated the most complaints .
A spokeswoman for City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, who represents Kips Bay, said her position has asked the Sanitation Department to be on the lookout for the pigeon feeders and publish tickets for littering if they were spotted scattering the boo seed .
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