These drivers are in for rat-ical change.
West Harlem has become the first neighborhood in the United States to have all of its trash containerizedin order to squash uptown rats’ curbside trash feasts, City Hall officials said Monday – but the hundreds of UFO-like “Empire Bins” are now permanently taking some coveted parking spots, The Post has learned.
The latest cohort of European-style bins, which are mandatory for all residential properties with more than 30 units, were installed over the weekend — and have gobbled up about 4% of parking spaces in the neighborhood overnight, a city sanitation department rep told The Post.
“It takes up parking spots that were already hard to find,” said Harlem resident Erica Lamont, who claims she circled the blocks of Broadway and West 149th Street for a half-hour on Tuesday morning…