Trash-filled Queens home is getting cleaned — with taxpayer dollars
Taxpayers will foot the bill for the cleanup of a putrid trash-packed Queens home that has for years been a blight on one unlucky neighborhood — as city officials said Friday that they’d pick up the tab for a cleaning crew.
Homeowner Mahindra Ramlal — who has racked up $343,000 in unpaid fines since 2015 — won’t pay a dime for the cleaners contracted by the city to clean the mountains of garbage outside the home, the city’s Human Resources Administration said.
Ramlal said he couldn’t understand why the city hadn’t earlier offered to clean up the mess super-hoarder tenant Carmine Bhimull created.
“I wish they had done this instead of giving me so many tickets,” Ramlal said after seven cleaners from a private company arrived at his South Jamaica home Friday morning — adding he was “thankful” the city was “doing all of the cleanup.”
While a city off🉐icial confirmed they were footing the bill with taxpayer funds, they could not say what the tab will come to and did not immediately explain why t𓂃hey were paying independent contractors instead of using sanitation department employees.
Decluttering efforts entered their second day Friday when the cleaning crew arrived at the property to tackle the mountains of trash — but wer♎e immediately pushed back when they discovered the inside of the home was teeming with fleas.
Officials and employees from cleaning company Diamond Power Enterprises entered the 118🐽th Avenue residence on Friday to survey the clutter inside but were immediately chased out by the deplora🎶ble conditions.
Cleaners were seen desperately swatting fleas off their clothes before being direc🍌ted to tackle the mountains of trash remaining in the rear alley of the residence.
Workers filled a 16-foot U-Haul truck with loads of black garbage bags 𝐆filled with decaying clothes and other rancid-smelling garbage — the stench at times making cleaner🍌s take a step back.
“This is gonna take days to clean,” said one worker climbing a mound of trash to enter the rear yard.
Complaints to city officials from neighbors and a local councilwoman about the residence — which had stacks of trash-filled garbage bags piled up to the second-floor window — fell on deaf ears for years until The Post’s front-page story on Wednesday.
A team of city agencies stepped in on Thursday to convince Ramlal to ܫclean up the mess, which was a potential fire trap and health hazaܫrd.
The homeowner and two pals filled a U-Haul van with dozens of garbage bags, making multiple trips to a waste facility, and were told to have the𝐆 mess c❀leaned up in several days.
Tenant Bhimull, an ex-gal pal of Ramla🍬l, was carted away in an ambulance for psychiatric evaluation on Wednesday night an♛d remains at Queens Hospital Center.
Ramlal said the trash was Bhimull’s “treasure” and on Friday told a Post reporter she was “upset” by the cleanup efforts.