People Keep Dumping Trash in the Alley Behind These Northeast D.C. Homes

People Keep Dumping Trash in the Alley Behind These Northeast D.C. Homes

The residents on Monroe Street NE have been consumed by trash. For about the past 40 years, these neighbors say, they have watched as trash of all shapes and sizes has piled up in the alley that runs behind their homes. Smashed cars, vacuums, refrigerators, tires, black trash bags full of construction debris—no unwanted item is too big or wild to be dumped onto the long, wooded alley that stretches behind the homes on the 3000 to 3100 blocks of …