Garbage Piles of Doom: East 95th Street Residents Cry Out for Relief

The stench was suffocating, a noxious cloud that hung over East 95th Street like a malevolent specter for three long weeks. Residents of the beleaguered neighborhood had had enough of the putrid odors and unsightly vapors wafting from the immense garbage piles that littered the dock, some as large as 2-3 days old. The source of this miasma was the city’s police boat, the John F. Hylan, which had been converted from its primary function as a law enforcement vessel to serve as a makeshift garbage scow.