NYC refuses to remove massive hornets’ nest from Queens tree, tells terrified residents to foot the bill

Un-bee-lievable.

The NYC Parks Department is giving a terrified Queens neighborhood a stinging response over a massive hornets’ nest — telling worried residents to pay out of their own pockets to humanely relocate it.

Reps for Councilman Phil Wong’s office swarmed the agency with complaints this week after constituents spotted a wasp fortress the size of two basketballs hanging 10 feet up in a city tree at the corner of Cowles Court and Dry Harbor Road in Middle Village, mere steps from a 79-year-old woman’s home.

They asked the agency to exterminate the pests or remove the hive – only to be told to buzz off…

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