Residents of the Pedregal neighborhood, lying adjacent to Luperon Avenue, have appealed for the relocation of the Sunday flea market. Fearing reprisal, neighbors asked not to be identified, but informed reporters that their quiet streets are transformed each week into a filthy, dangerous, unhygienic chaos. They allege that the green area next to the teeming bazaar of old clothes and cast off merchandise is converted into a public latrine, they claim. In addition, unsanitary food preparers fill the air with acrid odors and smoke, leaving mountains of food scraps that attract plagues of vermin. When the sellers and buyers withdraw on Sunday afternoon, they leave an ocean of debris that obstructs traffic. Worst of all, reporters were told, are the assaults and thievery perpetrated by hoodlums attracted to the area Santo Domingo’s Sunday flea market has never been well received by any neighborhood asked to host it. Its current location on Luperon Avenue is its forth "home" since it began the early 80’s.
