Some trash to be removed from rail tracks, says MTA
There is some rare good news about the piles of garbage that sit for months at a time down by the rail tracks that lay along 64th and 65th Streets between Fourth and Eighth Avenues: the unsightly stacks will be removed, with work slated to start at the end of February.
However, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is only responsible for the area on the north side the Sunset Park side of the rail tracks and 65th Street. The south side, in Bay Ridge and under the jurisdiction of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is leased to New York and Atlantic Railway, so that there has been ongoing debate in the past as to who is responsible for maintaining the tracks.
The clean-up decision was made within days of MTA officials going on a walking tour to the site with Community Board Seven District Manager Jeremy Laufer, who sent them a letter in early February requesting that the agency conduct a property search to find out if they were indeed responsible for the tracks maintenance.