Taylor Swift’s Tribeca Address Is Known “All Too Well” By NYC’s Sanitation Department

Taylor Swift has made a lot of news, from her outrage at Ticketmaster’s “excruciating” mishandling of her current world tour (which even sparked legislation in her name) to the rumors that she was rebounding from the end of her longtime relationship with Joe Alwyn by dating edge lord Matty Healy. Her personal life isn’t the only thing that’s been messy lately: the New York Post reports that the Sanitation Department has ticketed her repeatedly.

At issue is her townhouse on Franklin Street in Tribeca, a high-end neighborhood in lower Manhattan. As a homeowner, Swift is responsible for maintaining the 27 feet of sidewalk in front of her property. But since purchasing the home in 2017, the city has ticketed her on 32 occasions for “failing to clean the area in front of her building, having a dirty sidewalk, and improperly disposing of garbage.”

What kind of garbage? “[P]iles of newspapers, bottles and cardboard; napkins and wrappers; and ‘scattered ashtray contents’ and a cigarette carton, according to the summonses.” The Post’s Matthew Sedacca quotes Christine O’Connor speculating that the trash is probably attributable to fans staking out the door hoping for a glimpse of Swift when she’s in town, “and smoking while they’re bored….She doesn’t even smoke!”

The nearly three dozen fines have totaled $3,010 in charges — though, as Sedacca notes, Swift and “her army of lawyers” have disputed some, getting $200 reversed on appeal. Given her lawyers’ probable four-figure hourly rate, maybe they just did it for fun?

If Swift is really expected to do cigarette sweeps multiple times a day (or, let’s be real, pay someone to do it), good luck to her on staying ahead of New York’s smokers, who I don’t think ever drop their butts anywhere but the sidewalk. Still, when you have the resources to live in a three-story townhouse in the city, nuisances like this truly are “champagne problems.”

VF.com has reached out to Taylor’s rep for comment.