Nearly every Sunday for four years, residents of a quiet block in Brooklyn woke up to reams of paper dumped on their street. When the litterer was revealed to be an NYPD sergeant, the department stripped him of one vacation day.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Nearly every Sunday morning for four years, residents of a quiet block in Greenpoint, Brooklyn woke up to reams of paper dumped on their street. A serial litterer was precisely slicing pages from old Reader’s Digests, Bibles, junk mail and 1970s porn magazines before dumping them on tree-lined Noble Street between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street.
The slap on the wrist followed years of inquiries by block residents, a stakeout by a private security firm and the involvement of NYPD Internal Affairs investigators. Questions still linger. Why did Trzcinski, described by his sister as an “environmentalist,” do it? Residents – who devoted countless hours to the mystery in block association meetings, correspondence with the sanitation department and cleanup – were reluctant to talk about the litterer once he was identified as a cop.
A clue emerged earlier this year when one longtime resident, who declined to be named, adjusted a surveillance camera at her home to better capture the culprit. She shared footage with Gothamist showing a dark car driving down Noble Street around 5:30 a.m. on several different occasions as handfuls of paper flew out of the driver’s seat window.
The break in the case came when another resident, who has ties to a private security firm, arranged several overnight stake-outs, four neighbors told Gothamist. Gothamist could not reach that resident. But the stakeouts resulted in identification of the car’s license plate.
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