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City Council members are calling out Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed budget cuts to the Department of Sanitation as trash concerns continue to mount.
At a City Council hearing on Friday, council members emphasized the need for the city to prioritize sanitation services as growing concerns over missed collections, overflowing litter baskets and increased rat sightings are raised citywide.
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Illegal Dumping Piles Up in Southeast Queens But Neighbors Fight Back
In the earliest days of the pandemic, Angela Miskis started to notice piles of trash accumulating around her home and community in southeast Queens.
She couldn’t remain idle for long.
Inspired by her grandmother who picked up trash in her Ecuadorian hometown of Guayaquil, Miskis rolled up her sleeves to clean up her Queens Village neighborhood. As she picked up trash, she eventually ventured farther outside her community, meeting other concerned citizens like herself along the way.
Then she stumbled upon a hot spot for illegal dumping in Hollis — where the Long Island Rail Road tracks run parallel to a patch of dirt and shrubs on 99th Avenue.
“I’m talking like massive piles, like truckloads of illegally dumped trash,” said Miskis, a 34-year-old artist who’s lived in Queens for four years after stints in Harlem and Miami. “And that’s really when I became aware of that area being an issue and how much of an issue it has been for decades.”
Adams need to reverse himself on this. Homelessness, crime, and filth is not going to resurrect NYC. And like someone else said, people need to start cleaning up behind themselves. If I had a nickle for every I see people just tossing food, cigarettes, etc. in the streets...I don't know what kind of people are living in NYC now...but it's disgusting.
The NY1 article doesn't mention it but the Organics Collection program was eliminated due to lack of interest from NYC residents - for the second time. I guess NYers are smart enough to realize that the supposedly 'secure' pails would still stink up their neighborhoods.
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He (DSNY Comm. Grayson) said he’s working with the mayor’s office to come up with updated alternate side parking guidelines moving forward. In 2020, alternate side parking was reduced to once a week in residential areas, with the reduction extended due to budget cuts, he said.
What does Grayson mean by 'updated' ASP guidelines? Eliminating ASP in residential neighborhoods where the streets are the cleanest makes the most sense. Expanding ASP to areas that don't have it (Staten Island, eastern Queens, etc) wouldn't be cost effective.
Streets with multiple ASP days will be cleaned on the last day of the week, as posted on each street’s currently posted sign. For example, a street with ASP regulations posted on Tuesday and Friday will now be cleaned on Friday only.
You can tell the city is having financial trouble. All those years we were saying how deBozo and his free spending ways when the city was flush with cash was going to hurt the city down the road, well, that “down the road” is looking like it is starting now.
But like idiots, most did not care and voted the fool deBlasio and all his progressive Democrat comrades back into city government and now the same idiots are complaining about city services cutbacks.
People need to stop littering too and maybe clean up their own communities. It’s mind boggling to see people apathetic to the filth around themselves.
Its your community when you own the place you live in, if you rent, all bets are off, unless you had some decent upbringing, which lets face it, its NYC, those families have moved long ago.
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