The Big Apple is getting pretty trashy.

The city’s 311 system recorded a staggering 41,023 complaints about trash on city sidewalks between September 21, 2023 and September 20 – an increase of almost 250% from 11,813 during the same period four years ago and 30% more than last year’s 31,890, a huge number. After reviewing the city data found.

Kings County tops the trash pile with the most complaints about sidewalk litter.

Residents of the 11226 ZIP code, which covers Flatbush, logged more 311 hotline complaints than anywhere else in the Smelly Apple, data obtained by The Post.

The district recorded 986 complaints, while the entire borough recorded 15,128 grievances, an increase of 66 per cent on last year’s 11,413.

“Just look on any street or corner and see that there will be piles of trash and it will stay there for days because it seems like the garbage collectors don’t pick it up not for any reason,” said Maika, a Flatbush native. Eugene.

“It’s almost like the complaints are taken with a blind eye,” Eugene, 24, continued. “Compared to other neighborhoods in Brooklyn, there is a lot more trash here.”

Joan Mercurius, who has lived in the postcode for 25 years, blamed trash-filled sidewalks for bringing vermin into her apartment.

“The waste is terrible and then the rats come. I have them in my apartment and they are all over the streets — it’s because of this trash everywhere,” Mercurius, 79, told the Post while pointing to a pile of trash on Nostrand Avenue.

“People throw their trash away randomly and sometimes the garbage man doesn’t take it, so sometimes it stays there for weeks or months,” says David Gallimore.

“It’s humiliating,” Gallimore, 60, said. “There’s no way we’re living like this, man.”

The section of Cortelyou Road inside ZIP 11226 – which stretches from Dahill Road to Schenectady Avenue – had the most 311 complaints about sidewalk littering of any street in the city, with 221.

City Councilwoman Rita Joseph, whose Brooklyn district covers part of the 11226 ZIP code, said trash is “one of the biggest complaints we get from constituents.”

“It’s important for municipal agencies like (the Department of Sanitation) to develop a comprehensive plan on how to address areas of high sanitation need,” she said.

Manhattan comes in second with 9,683 complaints, followed by Queens with 8,248, the Bronx with 6,562 and Staten Island with 1,396.

ZIP code 10011 in Manhattan – home to Chelsea and Greenwich Village – was the second dirtiest ZIP code in the entire city, with 882 complaints, followed by 10468 in the Bronx, which covers Kingsbridge, Marble Hill and Fordham Manor, with 787 complaints.

“We’ve worked hard to get our constituents to contact 311, and it’s good that they’re doing so, but our city has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to sanitation,” said Councilman Erik Bottcher, which represents part of the 10011 ZIP code.

Bottcher also said his office has been in contact with the Sanitation Department about illegal dumping and missing trash cans from street corners.

Over the past 12 months, Sanitation has committed 992,192 cleanliness violations, an increase of 8% from a year ago and 335% more than during the same period in 2020-2021.

An increase in complaints does not necessarily correspond to an increase in trash citywide, according to sanitation spokesman Vincent Gragnani, who also said the DSNY supports May’s passage of a bill increasing fines for commercial cleanliness violations.

“We encourage all New Yorkers to call 311 and report unclean conditions,” Gragnani said.