Odors, flies and noise have been plaguing neighbors of Coney Island sanitation garage for decades

"“The smell, the flies, the garbage being picked up by seagulls and dropped into our yard. It basically makes the backyards useless because you don't want to be out there,” she said."

"“We were told when we purchased the house that the sanitation garage would be moving out. They were actually in the process of relocating and that fell through,” she told CBS News New York's Hannah Kliger. “It's been a never-ending ongoing process of them trying to find a new location and promises of us, you know, getting rid of it and it not being basically in our backyard.”"

"“It came to a point where every single time they came to us and was like, 'This is going to happen.' We were like, 'You know what? We'll believe it when we see it.'”"

"“When we were going to sign a 99-year lease for the land, they pulled out,” he said. “Saying that the money was not available for this project and we were going to fight it, but then COVID happened.”"

Residents near the Brooklyn District 13 Sanitation Garage in Coney Island have sought relocation for more than four decades. Neighbors report persistent problems including strong odors, flies, and garbage picked up by seagulls and dropped into yards, making backyards difficult to use. Some residents say they were told when they bought homes in the 1980s that the garage would move, but relocation plans repeatedly stalled and failed. A proposed plan before the COVID-19 pandemic aimed to combine the Brooklyn District 13 and District 15 garages into a larger facility farther from homes. The planned site was later sold to a private developer, and a 99-year lease did not proceed, with COVID further disrupting efforts.

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