Hamilton Heights is the crappiest NYC neighborhood — according to dog-poop data
"In this neighborhood, people don't complain,” resident Freddie Cottes, 51, said. "It's a tough area, it's not like snowflakes -- so if they're complaining, it's bad."
View ArticleCity Sanitation workers caught on video ignoring sidewalk trash in Brooklyn
These Sanitation workers didn't get the memo that the city has a rat problem!
View ArticlePaper trail! NYPD sergeant busted dumping books in bizarre string of littering
The officer was caught systematically dumping hundreds of pages of novels, religious text and porn magazines onto a Greenpoint street — solving a mystery that has baffled neighbors for years.
View ArticleNew Yorkers fume over illegal car washers taking hydrants, hogging parking
Outraged New Yorkers say they’re getting hosed by the black-market cleaners, who clog parking spaces while charging as much as $35 for a wash.
View ArticlePerdue, Tyson probed by feds over employment of migrant children who likely...
Cleaning company Fayette Industrial has reprtedly been hired by Perdue and Tyson to wash bloodied floors, razor-sharp machines and other equipment during overnight shifts.
View ArticleOver 90K used needles cleaned up from NYC public spaces in last fiscal year
The city's Sanitation Department picked up 90,861 needles from parks and public spaces during Fiscal Year 2023, a 30% spike from the prior 12 months.
View ArticleThis NYC super is fighting the new trash set-out time: ‘Our act of defiance’
Dominick Romeo, a live-in super of a condo in Chelsea, is organizing a grassroots movement and a City Hall rally to fight a new city effort in its war on rats.
View ArticleEric Adams’ new rat plan leaves New Yorkers on hook for official NYC trash cans
Homeowners across NYC will soon have to pay at least $50 for new trash cans -- as the city tries to crack down on rodents by standardizing garbage collections.
View ArticleNYC flooded with nearly 32K trash complaints — worst offender is Bronx zip code
“There is a garbage can right there, and they just throw it in the street. These low-lives! These idiots don’t care!” raged one man about his neighbors.
View ArticleBronx Little League field surrounded by trailer park that houses migrants
More than two dozen motor homes, camping trailers and even a converted school bus -- many of which appear inoperable -- languish along Allerton and Bruner Avenues near Astor Little League in Baychester.
View ArticleCity kicks out makeshift, migrant-friendly ‘trailer park’ near Bronx Little...
The 26 motor homes and camping trailers that languished along Allerton and Bruner Avenues near Astor Little League in Baychester were removed by the NYPD and city Department of Sanitation on Monday.
View ArticleEric Adams needs to cut budget fat, not cops, to avoid fiscal disaster
Mayor Eric Adams is planning to reduce the number of cops to early 1990s level as part of budget cuts needed thanks in large part to the migrant crisis, but there are far wiser trims to make.
View Article12 injured when MTA bus crashes into NYC sanitation truck in the Bronx: cops
The MTA bus T-boned the garbage truck at the intersection of Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard in Longwood, police said.
View ArticleAdams trashes cuts to NYC park litter baskets in another surprise budget...
The Department of Sanitation will no longer remove nearly 40% of all cans throughout the Big Apple come July, reversing a budget cut.
View ArticleEric Adams plays both hero and villain — but loses public trust in the process
Mayor Adams has been plagued by a stubborn opponent who thwarts his every initiative and contradicts his every public statement. That stubborn opponent is: Mayor Adams.
View ArticleBrooklyn pizzeria owner spent $60K of his own money to pick up street trash...
Sean Feeney, who owns Brooklyn's Fini Pizza, has spent $60,000 of his own money on 50 neighborhood garbage cans and private trash pick-up.
View ArticleMysterious foul stench plagues NYC’s tony Park Slope neighborhood, smells...
“It smells like sewage - poop and pee mixed together,” one local said of the stench emanating from the busy street corner.
View Article‘Absurd’ NYC Council bill would let street vendors hawk in middle of...
A new City Council bill would allow street vendors to set up shop in the middle of sidewalks – and even block competitors – potentially creating all sorts of chaos, critics contend.
View ArticleNYC Sanitation Chief Jessica Tisch seeks $13M for her Upper East Side duplex
The head of the city’s Sanitation Department is looking to clean up on her posh three-bedroom Upper East duplex, by putting it in the market for cool $13 million.
View ArticleWhat happens when you accidentally throw away jewelry, cash—even lottery...
Didn't mean to throw something out with the garbage? The Department of Sanitation recommends getting a "trash buddy."
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