Dozens of discarded Christmas trees are littering a Brooklyn neighborhood — nearly three weeks after Santa left town.
Residents are outraged by the cast-off conifers piling up in Brooklyn Heights, even though the city says curbside collection began on Jan. 4.
“They’re on every block, piles and piles. It’s unsightly,” said Cathy Haft, a real-estate broker.
“It’s in the way and other garbage is accumulating . . . people drop their coffee cups in.”
The executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, Peter Bray, said he hadn’t seen a single sanitation crew come through to pick up the trashed trees.
Some sidewalks are so clogged that pedestrians have to walk in the streets, Bray said, while winter winds have blown trees into the roadways like tumbleweeds.
There are also fears that “if they’re left in place too long, they could be a refuge for raccoons and rats,” he added.
The Sanitation Department said tree-collecting trucks will run through Saturday, adding that the agency has already collected “well north of 100,000 trees.”