Queens hoarder claims trash covering home is just recycling
She is an eco-friendly hoarder.
The Queens woman who has turned her home into a trash-filled eyesore with garbage piled up to the second-story says that the state of her residence is just fine and that she doesn’t understand why her neighbors complain.
“It’s not garbage in the yard – it’s recycling,” the woman, who identified herself as 57-year-old Carmine Bhimull, barked at a city Sanitation Department agent who showed up at the home on 118th Avenue in South Jamaica Wednesday.
Sanitation Enforcement Agent Allen George told the woman: “This is no good. It is a violation. You have to clean! You have to maintain the property at a standard.”
Bhimull simply laughed at George who warned her, “The next time I come back it’s going to be a ticket. I beg you, clean up, alright?”
The woman asked the Sanitation rep why he came to her home to which he responded that neighbors have complained.
“There is no reason for them to complain,” Bhimull railed.
Speaking later to The Post, Bhimull said that she would clean, but that her neighbors and the city needs to “just back off and let me live.”
“They are being very nasty and spiteful,” Bhimull said of her neighbors. “They continually call [city agencies to complain]. There is no stopping.”
Bhimull, who has racked up $343,000 in unpaid fines since 2015, made a feable attempt to clean by using the bristles of a broom to dust off the street in front of the house.
Bhimull said that she is originally from Trinidad and has lived at the Queens home for the past 18 years.
“The man who owns [the building], we used to live together. He moved. He lives somewhere else,” she said.
By Wednesday afternoon, NYPD officers and members of the FDNY showed up at Bhimull’s home and escorted her into a waiting ambulance.
“No, no, no, no,” Bhimull was heard shouting while inside before cops wrapped the property in “police line do not cross” tape.
She was taken to Queens Hospital Center, according to the FDNY.
Later members of the FDNY tried to gain access to the home, but a man who identified himself as Mahendro Ramlal – the owner of the building – barred them, saying, “Don’t go in there. We have two big dogs. They’ll tear you apart.”
“No one is going in. They don’t have a warrant,” said Ramlal, who claimed he is the ex-boyfriend of Bhimull.
“I’ve been talking to [Bhimull] on the phone [from the hospital]. Hopefully they straighten this out and she’ll be able to come home soon,” said Ramlal, who said just a few weeks ago Bhimull was taken to another hospital.
“This is nonsense,” he said. “They’re doing this for years.”
Meanwhile, Bhimull’s neighbors continued to complain about her and the trash-laden home on Wednesday.
“It’s a fire hazard. It’s going to burn the block down,” one next-door resident, who would only identify himself as Richard, 29, said. “We’ve seen dead cats in the basement, cats with mutilated skin.”
“There’s been a rat infestation, a fly infestation…It’s disgusting…There’s so much garbage in her backyard, it broke through my fence,” said Shawn, 28, who lives with Richard.
“I’ve seen hundreds of rats,” Shawn said. “And to be honest, the cats do kill them, but there’s five or six cats and hundreds of rats. So every morning you find a headless rat on your front step.”
Longtime neighbor Patricia Johnson, 66, said “It’s like hell living here.”
“She has no regard for us…Big rats here and the cats, out of control,” said Johnson, who claims that Bhimull goes into her yard and “takes what she wants.”
Another neighbor, Junior Lewis, 60, said the situation at the garbage-filled home “is just getting worse.”