A Bronx street has become a dumping ground for clunker cars — some without license plates — that are taking up valuable parking spots and creating an eyesore, local residents fumed to The Post.
The roughly two-dozen cars, left on Furman Avenue between 239th and 241st Streets, have had neighbors fuming for more than a year — and their complaints to 311 mostly fell on deaf ears, they said.
“I’ve called 311 about a month ago. There’s a white car that’s been parked out there for about five months and it’s still there,” Mateo Pina, 65, griped on Monday.
“If this was down by Gracie Mansion, they would be gone in an hour,” another frustrated neighbor said, asking his name be withheld because he runs a business on the block.
“Enough is enough,” griped an MTA employee who works at the adjacent 239th Street rail yard. “We don’t even know who these cars belong to, and when we call the city they don’t have any answers for us.”
The Post made official inquiries Monday evening, and by Tuesday morning Sanitation workers were tagging cars with a yellow grease pencil.
“If it has no plates, it’s getting marked and it’s getting towed,” a worker told The Post.
The Department of Sanitation is responsible for removing derelict cars that have no license plates, while the NYPD handles abandoned vehicles that do have plates.
The 311 complaint line received 26 reports about vehicles on five-block-long Furman Avenue last year, routing 15 to Sanitation and 11 to the NYPD, records show.
Sanitation workers “removed the items” in all 15 complaints, according to 311 records.
“In the past, we have tagged derelict abandoned vehicles in this area for removal, but at the time of pickup they were no longer on location,” explained Sanitation chief Keith Mellis.
Other seemingly abandoned cars bear out-of-state or temporary license plates, some of which are expired.
“Not all the cars at this location are abandoned. Some have been referred to NYPD for the Rotation Tow Program,” Mellis said.
The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment.
A worker at A1 Auto Body on Furman Avenue near 240th Street admitted many of the cars were in his company’s care.
“I called [customers] and told them they were getting ready to tow their cars, so we arranged to have the customers get their cars before Sanitation takes them,” the man said, declining to give his name.
The worker claimed that no one really complains when he leaves the heaps on the street.
“There is one person that complains . . . about parking,” he insisted.