Trash overflowing for weeks at a 21-unit apartment complex in Schenectady’s Stockade neighborhood has neighbors complaining about pests, missed pickups and what they describe as a lack of accountability from the property manager.
Residents at Cottage Row Apartments, which shares four trash cans and two recycle bins, said the problem has been growing for weeks. Bri McIntire, a Green Street resident, said trash began piling up until it was left next to the garbage bins and “thrown up on the railroad area where the grass comes down into the bushes and everything.”
“We had raccoons, we had skunks,” McIntire said. “A neighbor was sprayed by a skunk twice.”…