If a few of his latest posts are anything to go by, Chi Osse, like any half-reasonable human in New York, has had enough of the little, if you’re lucky, fecal mines left behind by negligent dog owners. The 27-year-old city councilman, repping Bed-Stuy and parts of Crown Heights in the city’s 36th District, made that much clear in his latest dispatches on Instagram.
In a pair of posts—first in a plain and economically worded graphic, then in a clip of him speaking directly to the mothers and fathers of all good boys and girls (see below)—Ossé captured himself at a boil, seemingly inundated with complaints about the soiled state of his district’s streets and sidewalks, and requests for the city’s involvement in basic civic hygiene. The initial post simply read, “Pick up your fucking dog shit.” And in its accompanying video, Ossé restated the request, adding how he’d already been working with the Department of Sanitation to address trash pickups delayed by the late-January snowstorm, and the city’s cleanup effort.
“There’s people in my comments, saying, ‘Why doesn’t the government, you know, pick up our dog shit?’” Ossé notes in the clip. “Do you want the government to go to your house and wipe your ass?” Ossé asks through a frustrated grin. “Listen, I know these past few weeks have been rough; they’ve been dirty; the ice hasn’t melted yet. We’ve been pressuring [the] Department of Sanitation to clean up the trash. Department of Sanitation, if you’re listening, we need a trash pickup. We do specialized trash cleanup in our office. So, if you know dirty streets that need extra attention, call my office,” the councilman adds, before settling where he started, reiterating, “But clean up your dog shit.”
Ossé’s plea, while explicit, was also pretty pragmatic from a city management standpoint, and, at its core, reflects a collective frustration non-dog-owners have expressed since well before the pandemic puppy rush, and the challenges of keeping our communities clean and safe, especially in the wake of a storm, which has trapped untold bacteria and carcinogens in the mounds of grey, slushy muck that have suspended alt-side parking regulations for the last two weeks. According to Gothamist, those icy boulders are already testing positive for “the usual—and at times toxic—dirt, grime and excretions that might typically be washed away by the wind and rain.” So, perhaps it’s not terribly unreasonable to ask dog owners to take some accountability, and maybe refrain from adding literal piles of shit to that mess, or, at the very least, have the decency not to demand the city cleans up after them.
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