Eight-foot piles of rat-infested trash are choking the streets around Gracie Mansion — which has gotten kid-glove shoveling treatment as Mayor Zohran Mamdani crows he can’t “imagine how it could get better’’ in the city.
While Hizzoner’s Upper East Side neighbors are forced to trudge through garbage-plagued roads, roaming rodents and mounds of snow tainted with dog pee a full week after Winter Storm Fern, the sidewalks outside the lefty mayor’s digs on East 88th Street are squeaky clean.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw yesterday — a whole army of Sanitation workers plowing and shoveling every bit of snow off of that side of the street,” local Nick Rivers griped to The Post on Sunday as he walked his black Lab along a littered sidewalk near the mayor’s residence.
“Clean as a whistle for the mayor,” Rivers said. “Look at this side.”
“This side” is marred by massive piles of garbage as high as 6 feet that have been building for days and attracting rats — even as Mamdani pats himself on the back, claiming he’s keeping things on track, including while New Yorkers are dying in the cold.
Other neighborhood streets are home to even higher piles of debris — some as tall as 8 feet.
“I’m new to the job,” the mayor said Friday. “I know the burdens will get heavier, but right now I struggle to imagine how it could be better.”
He should cross the street and ask his neighbors.
“Don’t get me started. I think his wife must have complained about the pee in the snow,” West 88th Street resident Attel said. “I don’t even look when I come out of the building.”
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