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Very common to see wet sidewalks in midtown during the early morning rush hour. The maintenance crew will stand there with water hoses spraying water. Why? Is it to remove the crusty bum juice from derelicts sleeping in front of the doors? To keep it generally clean? To prevent cracking? I'm genuinely curious.
Very common to see wet sidewalks in midtown during the early morning rush hour. The maintenance crew will stand there with water hoses spraying water. Why? Is it to remove the crusty bum juice from derelicts sleeping in front of the doors? To keep it generally clean? To prevent cracking? I'm genuinely curious.
You either are new to NYC or something.
By NYC law all property owners are supposed to keep the sidewalk in front of their building clean. This goes for private homes to multi-family residential and or yes, even commercial buildings.
Depending upon staffing some large commercial or residential buildings have a guy out there late/overnight hosing down, power scrubbing or whatever sidewalks, others wait until day shift starts somewhere between 6AM and 8AM.
For a commercial building it makes more sense to clean sidewalks early morning before tenants (office or whatever workers) begin to arrive. Clears away trash and god only knows what else that has accluminated since 5PM evening before and overnight.
Very common to see wet sidewalks in midtown during the early morning rush hour. The maintenance crew will stand there with water hoses spraying water. Why? Is it to remove the crusty bum juice from derelicts sleeping in front of the doors? To keep it generally clean? To prevent cracking? I'm genuinely curious.
I grew up watching the old Europeans scrub the stoops of their homes, sweeping
and hosing down the sidewalks including the parking space in front of their homes.
Cleanliness was always next to Godliness in these wonderful times.
It's a rarity to see it today. I still do it .
I don’t think it’s a joke or stupid. You don’t see standalone retail stores or schools or homeowners hosing down the sidewalk ever. I’m sure office building staff do it to clean the sidewalks but it’s probably unnecessary to do it every day.
I don’t think it’s a joke or stupid. You don’t see standalone retail stores or schools or homeowners hosing down the sidewalk ever. I’m sure office building staff do it to clean the sidewalks but it’s probably unnecessary to do it every day.
Sorry but that is wrong, totally and absolutely wrong.
Maybe in the busted area you live in shop owners, schools and whoever don't keep front of their property clean, but am here to tell you elsewhere in city that just is not the case.
Out on SI and all over Manhattan everyone and their mother is out there at least once a day sweeping, hosing down sidewalk and whatever. Again it's the *LAW* they have to do this or DSNY will slap property owner with tickets. Heck even if sidewalk is swept or whatever DSNY tries to pull a fast one and issue tickets. In which case building supers or whoever can go to the video tape and say "oh really?".
I don’t think it’s a joke or stupid. You don’t see standalone retail stores or schools or homeowners hosing down the sidewalk ever. I’m sure office building staff do it to clean the sidewalks but it’s probably unnecessary to do it every day.
Of course homeowners don't need to do it. They're in residential areas where you don't have high volumes of people walking about and leaving trash everywhere. The office buildings in NYC are located in high volume areas with lots of pedestrian traffic and trash.
Sorry but that is wrong, totally and absolutely wrong.
Maybe in the busted area you live in shop owners, schools and whoever don't keep front of their property clean, but am here to tell you elsewhere in city that just is not the case.
Out on SI and all over Manhattan everyone and their mother is out there at least once a day sweeping, hosing down sidewalk and whatever. Again it's the *LAW* they have to do this or DSNY will slap property owner with tickets. Heck even if sidewalk is swept or whatever DSNY tries to pull a fast one and issue tickets. In which case building supers or whoever can go to the video tape and say "oh really?".
I'm on SI and I haven't swept my sidewalk or curb in ages. I pick up stuff that blows around, picking up after my fellow middle-class residents who throw metrocard wrappers and Marlboro packs around. I better get my big broom out soon! LOL! Between living in Brooklyn for 30 years and on SI for 30 years I've never seen the DSNY give a ticket to a 1-2 family house homeowner.
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