Cleanup crews were all in for a cleanup job at the corner of Oliver Place and Decatur Avenue. The troubled grounds have been quite the eyesore for the neighborhood over the last few decades, as many treat it as a dumping ground.

Teams from the nonprofit group FEDCAP were on hand, as well as employees of Councilman Ritchie Torres, whose 15th Council District covers the Bedford Park lot. Torres’s office allocated $100,000 for the cleanup crew. Some items collected included bicycle wheels, parts of a fan, and small wooden planks.

But just where the trash is coming from bewilders Joe McManus, Torres’s employee, who was there when the trash was collected. A fence has been installed to keep anyone from easily throwing trash onto the neglected lot. Still, the trash persists.

“It was piled two and three, four feet high. So that means they got to be throwing it out their windows,” McManus said at the May 2 Bedford Mosholu Community Association meeting. “Shame on the people who live there. No way you could launch it from the street.”

Ideas over where the trash was originating from were batted around at the BMCA meeting. Some suspected locals who just dump it there.

The property belongs to the city Transportation Department, which has yet to honor a request from the community to convert the grounds into a playground. The property falls under Community Board 7, which has raised the matter every now and again.

“I had hoped that maybe because Edison Arms, the senior complex across the street, that someone get involved and want to put an urban garden there,” said Barbara Stronczer, president of BMCA. “We need something because this is something that’s going to happen again.”