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Putrid piles of dog poo have been increasingly plaguing the city’s priciest borough since 2022, skidding to an all-time high in February, a disgusting new analysis found.
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal dropped the study Friday as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council members howled about the SCOOP Act — a package of bills taking aim at the city’s dog feces free-for-all.
Animal activists, doggie influencers and even “Dog Mayor Simon” joined politicians including Council Speaker Julie Menin near the dirt of Tompkins Square Park’s dog run to announce the legislation.
“We are here today because we all love our great city and we love our dogs,” Menin said. “But we’ve all experienced it before: that instantaneous feeling of deep regret right after you stepped in it — something that’s much too soft to be concrete.
“Having clean streets and sidewalks certainly sets a tone for our neighborhood and our community,” Menin added. “And indeed, for our entire city. But just one small, seemingly careless act can have a domino effect, and it can quickly start to add up.”
Doggie doo doo complaints have surged 35% in the first few months of 2026 — but the nasty trend had been snowballing year over year, the politicians revealed.
“This crap has to stop,” Hoylman-Sigal said in a statement.
“For far too long, Manhattanites have suffered from increasing levels of dog waste on their streets, and today we know the city must take action.”
The scatological study delved into 311 calls about canine Tootsie Rolls across Manhattan, finding nearly 1,700 complaints since January 2024.
The number represents 0.1% of all 311 calls over Manhattan and is almost certainly an undercount, given that “most people who step around a pile on the sidewalk don’t reach for their phone,” the study states.
But the results revealed poo patterns, notably that complaints over dogs’ waste peak every February and March.
February this year logged the single most complaints — 308 — out of any month, doubling the record set during the same month in 2025, the study found.
The spike was so big that Hoylman-Sigal’s excrement researchers widened their analysis to scoop up complaints going back to January 2020 — and confirmed the month set a record.
The February fecal finding isn’t necessarily a surprise — that month, the city was buried under a foot of snow, forcing New Yorkers to dodge dung left behind by inconsiderate dog owners.
Dog waste complaints rose nearly 100% citywide during that time, with streets in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and Manhattan’s Washington Heights logging the most calls, The Post previously reported.
The study also compared poop complaints in the 12 community boards representing Manhattan’s neighborhoods, assigning each a letter grade for cleanliness — and, sure enough, found Washington Heights fared the worst.
Community Board 12, covering Washington Heights and Inwood, scored a D, with a dog poop rate 17.3 times higher than the cleanest neighborhoods, which were downtown.
Other Uptown boards covering central and East Harlem received C grades, with the study noting that those areas mostly have fewer trash baskets and no poop bag dispensers.
Blocks with fewer public trash cans have dog poop complaint rates almost three times higher than blocks with good public trash coverage, the study found.
And only 25 dog poop bag dispensers are still in service across all of Manhattan, even though the borough had about 200 bag dispensers installed in 2018, according to the study.
“It is particularly outrageous that despite Upper Manhattan having the highest rate of dog waste 311 complaints, there are zero dog waste bag dispensers available for the community’s use,” Hoylman-Sigal said. “This status quo is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to continue.”
The SCOOP package includes measures requiring dog poop bag dispensers to be installed next to every public litter basket and sending sanitation workers to clean up if at least three dog poop complaints are made on the same block.
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The bills also include educational material for dog owners on the importance of cleaning up their pets’ waste, as well as a proposal to enforce cleanup.
The city will also launch a NYC Scoop Patrol initiative, which Menin said will include neighborhood community events and clean-ups. Members will be rewarded with a “Scoop Patrol” sticker.
Additional reporting by Katherine Donlevy
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