The shell of a burned-out car has been sitting in a Brooklyn intersection for close to a week — and ticked-off residents say the city is ignoring the eyesore.
Someone left the scorched Infiniti FX35 at Flatbush Avenue and Fleet Street after it burned in Downtown Brooklyn last Wednesday, neighbors say.
Since then, it’s been blocking the crosswalk and turning one of the borough’s busiest areas into something from “The Warriors.”
Ed Jones, a 51-year-old doorman at nearby City Tower, said he watched the luxury car go up in smoke on Feb. 13.
“Initially, when we smelled and saw the smoke and went outside, you could see little flames near the wheel in the front by the driver’s side, but by the time the Fire Department got here, it was raging,” he said. “The fire had really gotten out of control.”
The driver was nowhere to be seen.
When Jones came to work the next morning, the car, to his surprise, was still there — and it’s been sitting there ever since.
Shards of metal are sticking up from the obliterated hood and the blackened engine is in ribbons. There is a massive hole in the windshield and the license plates have been removed.
Residents say they are shocked that the city has left the charred carcass, which is starting to fill up with trash, for so long.
“It’s an eyesore. It doesn’t look nice for the area,” said Mark Westfall, 32, who just moved to the neighborhood two weeks ago.
“Given that [the city was] made aware of it straight away, you’d think it would be gone by now.”
Another neighbor, Aaron McNaughton, said the city is hypocritical for ticketing and towing cars at lightning speed while leaving the burned-out shell for nearly a week.
“It’s a little bit ironic because you know if you were parked by a meter and you’re missing by one minute, you’re going to get a ticket or towed at the very least,” said McNaughton.
“I guess they see no money being made from this.”
A spokeswoman for the city’s Sanitation Department declined to comment and referred calls to the NYPD, which said it only found out about the car on Monday.
Witnesses told The Post cops responded when the car first went up in flames. The NYPD didn’t address follow-up questions.
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge