NYC BARKING MAD

When & where we grrripe about pups

Apparently, the only thing New Yorkers love more than their own dogs is complaining about other people’s pooches.

Data compiled by the real-estate Web site Localize. city show that residents, on average, file more than 7,000 complaints each year about man’s best friend barking too much — with the largest spike coming in September.

“The number of complaints rise and fall during the months,” explains site researcher Daniel Slutsky, “typically dipping in July and August and then jumping in September by 25 percent.”

Residents of Manhattan and Queens tend to growl the most about Fido, according to Localize, citing an algorithm matching 311 complaints to buildings in each borough.

There are 431 buildings across the city that have sparked the most complaints, the site says.

Researchers analyzed data from July 31, 2017, to July 30, 2018, and compared it to previous years. Since 2013, there have been about 7,200 complaints filed on average every year by New Yorkers.

The addresses with the most complaints “varied by neighborhood and type of housing,” according to Localize.

They included a four-unit brownstone in central Harlem; a 34-unit, 12-story condo on the Upper West Side with a doggy day-care on the ground floor; and a one-story house in Floral Park, Queens. The No. 1 spot for dog complaints is in Morningside Heights at 130 W. 111th St., where neighbors complained plained about dogs barking 37 days in the past 12 months. Researchers learned during the course of the study that three dogs live at the address: a mutt and two English bulldogs, the latter named Yesterday and Tomorrow. “Yesterday barks because she’s very protective. She has this instinct,” owner Yvette Harrington told Localize. “She’ll bark if something doesn’t seem right.”

The No. 2 spot for barking-dog complaints is 105 W. 72nd St. — where the doggy day-care was located.

Researchers say the summer dip is not surprising, since people are vacationing and out of the house more often before they start spending more time at home again in September.

“Not only are the dogs away and playing outside more, but the people complaining about them might be out of town as well,” Slutsky says. “September is also a popular month for moving into new homes, so there may be some new circumstances for both the dogs and their neighbors.”