4 times • JULY 14, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com Trashy trains made for a smelly holiday in M.V. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE This practice of leaving train cars agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com filled with waste in Middle Village is @A_GiudiceReport nothing new to the residents of the neighborhood. As most Americans were enjoying “NYA has been parking trains the smell of hamburgers, hot dogs behind the homes in Middle Village and fireworks over the Fourth of July for years and they have one excuse weekend, some residents in Middle after another as to why they do it,” Village were forced to put up with said Robert Holden, president of the stench of open gondolas full of the Juniper Park Civic Association garbage parked behind their homes. (JPCA). “I remember a few years Many people complained when ago they parked trains loaded with New York & Atlantic Railway (NYA), solid municipal waste during the long the company that operates out of the Thanksgiving weekend. NYA is the Fresh Pond Rail Yard — which runs quintessential bad neighbor, a company through portions of Middle Village, that does as they please with no Glendale and Ridgewood — left train regard for the community.” cars of rotting waste behind their One local elected official reached homes from July 3 to July 5, disrupting out to the train company to find out their holiday weekend. why the train cars were parked in “We got reports of foul odors,” said Middle Village for the weekend. Mary Arnold, co-chair of Civics United “My staff was contacted regarding for Railroad and Environmental railroad cars full of garbage being left Solutions (CURES). “People have on the tracks over the July Fourth pride in their homes and they have weekend. We immediately contacted their families over for the holiday and New York and Atlantic Railway,” they have this. It’s just insulting. The said Assemblyman Mike Miller. “The way NYA is acting, it’s unfair, it’s explanation that my staff was given unhealthy, it’s filthy, it’s un-neighborly regarding this situation was there was and it’s totally unnecessary.” a new crew working that weekend. According to CURES, the train cars New York and Atlantic Railway decided were slated to be moved out, but due that leaving garbage behind residents’ to the long holiday weekend, pickup houses during the July Fourth of the trash wouldn’t occur until after weekend was acceptable. Residents the Fourth of July. had to deal with that foul smell while “They park over the holiday when trying to enjoy their backyard for a they know they aren’t going to get a holiday weekend. It’s unacceptable pickup, and they take it anyway and that this company continues to disregard bring it into Queens,” Arnold said. the community’s quality of life, Trains filled with uncovered garbage were left behind homes in Middle Village over the Fourth of July weekend. especially on a holiday weekend. After seven years, you would think that New York and Atlantic Railway could get it right just once.” According to the railroad company, the train cars were not filled with trash, but rather with construction and demolition (C&D), which would not create foul odors. “The cars in question were construction and demolition debris and contained no putrescible waste, either municipal or commercial,” said John P. Casellini, spokesperson for NYA. “The contents of C&D cars are the same as those found in a construction dumpster on the street next to a home in any neighborhood undergoing remodeling.” Casellini suggests that community members reach out directly to NYA Photos via Facebook.com/CURES with any concerns or problems so they can handle the problem directly and in a more time-efficient manner. “If the community has concerns with specific cars, we have a longestablished protocol which we agreed to with local elected officials and community leaders to provide immediate and verifiable action,” Casellini said. “Despite knowledge of this, the complainant chose to reach out to other parties over the holiday weekend, naturally delaying the response. 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