The
City Council Speaker called on Hizzoner to restore $4.2 million in
funding for collection of garbage from street corner trash cans.
“No one wants to go back to the days when overflowing trash baskets on every corner was the norm," Johnson said. “We need those baskets emptied more often, not less. Cutting this funding won’t balance the city’s budget, it will hurt the city’s quality of life.”
City streets have cleaned up their act in recent years, with 96% rated “acceptable” or better last year, according to Johnson
Still,
the seven community boards with the lowest ratings for clean streets
are all in Brooklyn or the Bronx, the speaker claims.
What not Queens? The photo above was taken on a street corner in Ozone Park and Jamaica is still keeping up it's reputation for being the filthiest detritus strewn town in the borough.
To paraphrase those protests: Can't clean the city, can't run the country.
