From CBS New York:The city has hired 100 young New Yorkers to help clean up trash on surrounding streets and storm drains that end up in the ocean.
“We remind people to clean up their litter. And one consequence of littering is that it can get to the beaches,” New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland told Miller. ”People don’t think about it and they think that it’s a harmless activity. Of course, it makes the street look bad but also can end up on the beach where they spend their weekends.”
And even though superstorm Sandy hit almost nine months ago there’s still a lot of work to be done.
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Can the city hire just one person for Bowne Park? There's no one there this year, the garbage pails are mostly missing, and it looks totally abandoned.
The people that go there are filthy slobs.
Send a few of them to Forest Hills where the streets and sidewalks are strewn with litter.
It would make more sense to upgrade the sewage treatment plants to keep up with all the new development. Development works if you actually make the effort to support it with the right infrastructure. I know, around here, they prefer to wait a few decades so they can make political hay out of it first before they actually do anything.
OK I agree that Queens has become alot dirtier and, and that alot of people here are slobs, and the city doesn't seem to care. But the people here on this board are starting to sound like the kind of people who would drown in their own bathtub because there wasn't anyone there to shut off the faucet for them!
100 people who will do not much.
the Parks Department planted flowers, shrubs & plants on Shore Front Parkway and Rockaway Beach Boulevard. The Parks Department doesn't bother to water them and they are all dying.
These were only planted for the news photographs for Memorial Day.
Was at Jacob Riis park last weekend. Christ, what a trashy shithole that could be beautiful if people weren't slobs.
People today are major slobs, and not just the typical low class third world immigrants and low class ghetto crowd. One of the reasons I rarely go to a New York City Beach. I must say, although I have not been there in a few years, Long Beach is very nice and clean, although much probably has to do with the fact that they charge $10 a person to go on it. That certainly keeps the crap people out.
Who needs a beach when you can sunbath on a pillar?
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