Residents in one Brooklyn neighborhood say their streets are overrun with raccoons that are creating a health hazard by spreading trash across entire city blocks and leaving behind piles of droppings that host parasitic roundworms, according to a published report.

Now the Greenwood Heights community wants the city to intervene.

“You go outside expecting to see one — and there’s a family of five or six,” neighborhood resident Aaron Brashear told the Brooklyn Paper. “They’re beyond a nuisance.”

Residents blame the warm spring for an explosion in the raccoon population near Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.

Animal Care & Control, a non-profit contracted by the city, only removes raccoons if they are deemed dangerous, sick or hurt. So fed up residents have launched a letter-writing campaign urging the City Council to amend the law and require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to trap and remove the critters, the paper reported.

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