
Edward Lehner, Who Made Dog Owners Pick ‘It’ Up, Dies at 93
From the free article:
"Before the passage of Public Health Law 1310, as it was officially known, New York City was a minefield of dog dirt. On the sidewalks, in the streets, around the parks — negotiating the city was a harrowing exercise in feces avoidance. Or not. Sometimes, Justice Lehner said in a 2015 oral history interview for the New York Public Library, “you would come home and have it all over you.”
I was a child before it passed and I bet the author had experienced it too because "minefield" is the best word to describe what it was like walking on certain sidewalks.