From the Brooklyn Paper:It’s official: the city has stopped picking up garbage.
A Sanitation official admitted this week that it ended regular pick-ups of public trash cans along commercial strips last July — instead only picking up the trash when trucks making residential runs happen to drive by.
As a result, pick-ups that occurred as many as times 21 per week — three times a day, every day — are only happening once or twice a week, said Ignazio Terranova, the agency’s citywide community affairs officer.
Terranova blamed budget cuts for the drop in pick-ups, citing an $80-million hole that the department had to fill. And he doesn’t predict an increase in collection anytime soon.
“Right now, and for the foreseeable future, I don’t see that changing,” Terranova said.
The elimination of pickups has played a major role in adding a layer of filth to Brooklyn’s commercial strips, Terranova admitted, but he also blamed residents who toss their household trash — and businesses that put their commercial crapola — in city bins.
Both practices, while common, are illegal.
11 comments:
If we elect garbage, is there any surprise that we will forced to live in it?
I guess Bloomberg would like a revival of the bubonic plague. He could decrease the "surplus population" with no effort whatsoever!!
Hey, maybe the city will now cut back on the sanitation guys going around writing homeowners for not recycling properly, or for having litter on the sidewalk after the old asian women rumage through their garbage looking for bottles and cans.
Education and enforcement is the answer. Some people don't realize that they're breaking the law while others think they are slick and put their unsorted trash in corner recepticles. RAISE THE FINE AND BANG THEM WITH TICKETS. I witness this shit all the time. The lazy bastards walk to the bus in the morning with their garbage. Where is the Sanitation PD? The NYPD can write the tickets also. I could make the city a mint writing summons on Fresh Pond Road and Myrtle Ave. I bet this doesn't happen in Bloombergs neighborhood.
I bet they are picked up around new develpments like LIC!
Tell ya what - get rid of painting the bike lanes and force the developers to dig their own tree pits.
Plenty of money then!
Wow, I thought George Carlin was dead!
He doesn't look too good in that picture!
I remember many years ago (back in the '60s?) when sanitation men actually came around and swept up trash into portable dustbins on wheels. Alas, we'll never that again, except in old photos.
Anyway, flash forward to 2010. When public trash receptacles inevitably overflow and the litter winds up on the sidewalk, you can be sure that there will be sanitation officers aplenty to ticket "offending" property owners. Sure, the City has money to pay them, because they are bringing in revenue. It's the Bloomberg Way.
Hey! Stop complaining. The street people are making a lot of money sorting through that garbage and recycling cans etc. Give 'em a break. They're not unionized.
The street people are making a lot of money sorting through that garbage and recycling cans etc.
Great. Publicity. Now I'll have more competition on my secondary income source. Thanks a lot!!!
The filthy gypsies live in a storefront on 74st and metro,the garbage can is overflowing,24/7. Dept. of buildings,sanitation,health........................................................crickets..........
What is the point of slashing the sanitation budget by $80 million, causing this, and then sitting on a 3 billion $$$ surplus. Maybe I'm missing something.
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