On this winter view of Perry Street in Greenwich Village, a Curb Your Dog sign is prominent. New York City instituted the “pooper scooper” law in the early 1980s, mandating that dog owners clean up detritus left by their pooches instead of leaving it by the curbs.
The Department of Transportation recently announced its intentions to no longer place new Curb Your Dog signs and remove the ones already installed, citing the fact that many of them have outdated fine information. So, while these signs aren’t rare now (February 2014) they soon may be.
In heavy snows, many dog owners are under the impression that dogsh!t melts when the snow does, and so the white expanse is occasionally punctuated by lengthy brown masses. Of course, most building managements are also prepared to risk fines and refuse to chop ice and place rock salt on their sidewalks to melt the snowfall remains.
Such is city life.
2/18/14