The notorious red car that was abandoned by the entrance to the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway on Hicks Street was finally picked up last Thursday.
A mystery towing company, contracted by Department of Sanitation, towed the maroon Ford Escort on March 1 — almost three weeks after it was junked and 12 days after The Brooklyn Paper called in the wreck to 311 and was promised it would be gone within 72 hours.
The Sanitation Department tagged the car for pickup on Feb. 23 — the day the car was officially assigned over to a private contractor, said Matthew Lipani, an agency spokesman.
But Lipani would not give us the name of that outside company, so we couldn’t ask why it took five days for the car to be removed after the tagging.
And Sanitation could care less.
“Once it is tagged, it becomes the property of the private vendor,” Lipani said. “They do what they want with it.”
Whenever they want to get around to it, apparently.
