Happy Tuesday in New York City, where the poop police are finding it hard to do their jobs.
The two major snowstorms this winter brought our attention to one of the most persistent and foul problems facing city sidewalks: the scourge of abandoned dog poop. Cold temperatures and large snowbanks encouraged dog owners to keep their hands in their pockets and the waste on the ground, creating a fecal minefield that reached peak peril when the snow melted.
“PICK UP YOUR F—ING DOG SHIT” Councilmember Chi Ossé posted on Instagram on Feb. 12.
During a budget hearing with the Department of Sanitation yesterday, officials discussed possible solutions to the problem, but were met by a seemingly intractable barrier: reactivity.
In behavioral psychology, reactivity refers to the tendency of people to change their behavior when they know they’re being observed. In the case of the dog poop perpetrators, an officer can only discipline an offender if they catch them in the act, something that’s unlikely to happen if an officer is standing nearby.
“The chances of someone not picking up after their dog while an enforcement officer is watching are very, very slim,” said Javier Lojan, the acting commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, during the budget hearing. “So slim, that we issued just two summonses for failure to remove canine waste in 2025.”
In seemingly unrelated news, it appears the identity of renowned street artist Banksy has finally been revealed. Interesting timing… perhaps all this dog poop is really the greatest public art installation of our time.
Tenants in at least two recently-built luxury high-rises in Brooklyn are now dealing with problems typically found in much older public housing: water outages, leaks and roaches.
The City Department of Transportation plans to reduce the speed limit to 15 mph at an additional 800 school locations in 2026, bringing the citywide total to nearly 1,300 by the end of this calendar year.
Brooklyn Law School received $12 million from the estate of alumnus Sheridan Albert, a 1948 graduate and personal injury attorney long known as the “Pothole King.”
A city-built early childhood facility in the Columbia Waterfront District, equipped with 135 seats for 3- and 4-year-olds, has sat locked and vacant for years. Neighborhood parents are petitioning city officials to activate it.
The Nostrand Houses, a New York City Housing Authority project in Sheepshead Bay, was recommended by the New York State Board for Historic Preservation to be added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual cherry blossom celebration, Hanami Nights, returns next month to the garden’s Cherry Esplanade.
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Celebration of exceptional women in Brooklyn is theme of 2026 award ceremony at Brooklyn College
From left: Ritha Pierre, Esq., Florencia Chang-Ageda; Sabrina Simon; District 22 Executive Director Stu Chasabenis representing Julia Bove; Arlene Lieberman; Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn; Roisin Ford; Nowshin Ali; Wendy Ann Powell; and Dr. Sandra Scott. Photo: Loretta Chin/Brooklyn Eagle
For Women’s History Month, Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair and Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, D-42, is on a mission to highlight the women who make Brooklyn great.
Recently, she honored historic New York women from past to present. The event recognized Mary Anne Krupsak, Judith Kaye, Andrea Stewart Cousins, Julie Menin and Crystal People’s Stokes
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On This Day in 1929, the Eagle reported: “The whole question of diplomatic liquor, the status of which has never been regularized in an act of Congress, was before various departments of the Government tonight.”
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