Curb your organic enthusiasm: Food, yard waste pickups comes to more Brooklyn, Manhattan areas next week (New York: neighborhoods)

[Aeran]

FYI

https://www.amny.com/news/curbside-o...bes-next-week/

The city is expanding its curbside organics pick up to three more districts in Brooklyn and Manhattan next week, according to the Department of Sanitation.

New York’s Strongest will start collecting food and yard scraps from brown bins starting the week of Nov. 1 around neighborhoods in Brooklyn’s Community Board 7, which includes Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, along with Manhattan community boards 6 and 7, which cover areas on the Eastside of Midtown and the Upper West Side.

Another round of service expansion is slated for November 29th, in the Bronx’s Community Board 8 (Kingsbridge, Riverdale), and Brooklyn community boards 1 (Williamsburg, Greenpoint), and 2 (Dumbo, Downtown Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Fort Greene), according to DSNY.

Sanitation relaunched its dormant curbside composting collection program in Brooklyn’s CB6 (Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus) on Oct. 4, where more addresses signed up for the opt-in program than in any other part of the city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio paused organics pickups for almost a year in May 2020 due to the pandemic, and initially didn’t plan to relaunch it until after he leaves office in 2022, but following pressure from politicians, he announced the brown bins would return this fall on a voluntary basis.

[dfc99]

Organics Collection failed the first time around, having proved unpopular in the neighborhoods where it was initially rolled out. The 'organics' pails smelled up those blocks and residents objected. I expect the same outcome this time around.