An artist who had an exhibit at Gracie Square Art Show in Carl Schurz Park stepped in dog poop at the park earlier this month. Shit, as they say, happens, but the outraged artist, Baltimore-based Christos Palios, demanded that NYC Parks Department workers clean up the poop on the ground around the exhibits and, reportedly, from his fancy shoes.
The New York Post reports that park worker Tasheema Chatman was asked to clean the poop from Palios’s shoes. “He had this cocky, arrogant demeanor to himself, like this was a regular thing for him,” she said.
Palios denied demanding Chatman to clean his shoes, saying instead that he only politely asked her to do so.
It was because New Yorkers don’t clean up their dog poo.
“What bothers me universally is that she had a choice just to say no, no, no,” he told the Post. “I mean, I didn’t order her. I said, ‘Are you sure?’ and I just thought she had helped someone else with it or, or it was no big deal.”
“I felt uncomfortable a little bit the whole time, but I thought it was just going to be a 15- or 20-second thing,” he added. “I called for three little spots.”
Chatman has since requested and received a transfer to another park. “They made me feel less than a person. I can’t stop breaking down,” she said. “I just don’t understand how somebody can treat another human being like that. And this is happening right in the Mayor’s backyard and he needs to know.”
She also told the Post that she cried for 15 minutes after cleaning poop from Palios’s shoes.
Palios says the city’s inconsiderate dog owners are to blame for the incident. “It was because New Yorkers don’t clean up their dog poo,” he said.
The Parks Department is looking into the incident, according to a spokesperson who spoke with the Post.
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