This abandoned car, which has no license plates, sat on the entrance ramp of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway near Hicks Street for more than a week — even after The Brooklyn Paper called 311 to get it removed (so much for the power of the press).
When we called 311 last Friday, we were told that the maroon Ford Escort LX would be towed away within 72 hours; as of Wednesday we were still waiting for the hazardous eyesore to be removed.
The Department of Sanitation is required to pick up abandoned and beaten-up cars, rather than the Department of Transportation, which tows away illegally parked vehicles.
