Raccoon rampage of poop and pee leaves NYC family with $100K repair bill

These bandits cost a Brooklyn family $100,000.

Romping raccoons that ran wild in Alice and David Zaslavsky’s $1.2 million Brooklyn home pooped and peed everywhere, chewed through wiring and terrified the couple’s 9-year-old daughter before they were finally banished.

And while the flea-bitten critters are now gone, the Zaslavskys are still not out of the woods.

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Bandits like this one ran wild in the Brooklyn home. Boston Globe via Getty Images
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The city issued a stop work order to a neighbor in July 2022, due to flea-infested raccoons. Michael Nagle
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Alice Zaslavsky and her daughters, Claire and Paige are still dealing with the cleanup from the raccoon rampage. Michael Nagle

Contractors estimate the ninja furballs caused $100,000 worth of damage to the three-bedroom, 1,930-square foot home, and the family’s insurance company won’t cover the necessary month’s worth of repairs.

“We have this tiny little clause in our homeowner’s insurance that says they do not clean up wildlife secretions which they deem toxic. Raccoon poo,” an exasperated Alice Zaslavsky told The Post of the AmGuard policy.

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