Posted on 04/25/2021 8:50:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City is in the process of hiring and deploying 10,00 workers for a newly created "City Cleanup Corps" after complaints over filthy conditions surged 150% between March and August 2020, and rodent complaints spiked as well according to Bloomberg, citing data from the city's 311 service request line.
The push to restore some of the city's pandemic related cuts to the sanitation budget comes as Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $30 million tourism push this week. With de Blasio departing City Hall later this year due to term limits, the cleanup job will have to be completed by his successor.
Among the more than a dozen candidates in the June 22 Democratic primary, perhaps no one has a more detailed plan to address the trash problem and beautify streets than former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia. She’s pledged to increase funding to public spaces, parks and gardens, restart recycling programs and send zero waste to landfills by 2030. “When we see dirty streets, people intuitively think either government isn’t doing its job or things are really bad,” Garcia said in an interview with Bloomberg News editors and reporters. “When you cut the sanitation budget by more than $100 million, you have to understand the implications of that.”
Sanitation intersects with climate, public health, safety, transportation and the city’s economic recovery. Cleaning the streets will reinvigorate the culture and tourism that keeps money flowing into New York, said Margaret Chin, a City Council representative for Lower Manhattan and a member of its sanitation committee. -Bloomberg
According to the report, trash levels are now higher than last year's peaks as people return to the city, while online deliveries have generated massive amounts of waste. By the end of March, waste tonnage had risen approximately 15% vs. the first few months of the pandemic, city data reveal.
"People may not think that’s a priority, but it’s very important for businesses, tourists, community residents to have their neighborhoods clean," said Chin, adding "It just makes people feel better when you walk down the street and it’s not full of garbage."
Good luck finding people who will work.
Just hire all of the unemployed in the city and get the job done. No more unemployment so long as there are public works or services jobs.
They’ll hire the illegals they’ve brought in and pay them half what they would otherwise.
I once wanted to take a stroll through NYC taking pictures of all of the animal markings (graffiti), trash, stripped cars, rundown buildings, and all to highlight just how much of a cesspool NYC is despite the continuous claims otherwise. Visiting NYC occasionally is one thing, not sure how anyone could live there, some for their entire lifetime. And I used to work there, traveled for the work weeks.
“online deliveries have generated massive amounts of waste”
How so, other than recyclable corrugated cartons? I don’t buy that for a second.
That is true for ANY Democrat-run medium or large city. They are all disgusting shit-holes.
How long ago this visit to NYC where you made this observation?
In honor of Barack Obama, they are pronouncing it Cleanup Corpse.
It’s gonna take more than this, to clean up DeBlob’s sickening mess.
No wonder he keeps importing illegals.
Aaarrgghh.
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We used to go, quite often, up until a few years ago.
Even then, the city reeked of pee/puke and who know’s what else.
EVERY restroom.....even in nice places (Jean-George, Gramercy Tavern, etc.) smells like they mop with pee.
At lease Chitcago, for all of its many faults, is....in the downtown area....a lot cleaner, than NYC. Not the horrid smell hanging over.
This is likely because of the City's hard lockdown and closure of restaurants.
See, the fuzzy little critters feast on food thrown out by restaurants. But when Gotham shut down, and the restaurants went black, the critters' garbage food supply was cutoff.
This is EXACTLY what happened in New Orleans in March 2020.
Precautions put in place to slow the rise of coronavirus cases in New Orleans has inadvertently led to a rat problem for the Louisiana city. With restaurants closed save for take-out service, far less food waste is being discarded in the city's alleyways, driving the local rodent population out into the open to search for scraps.
Few cities can top New York City and San Francisco for utter filth and cesspool conditions.
Elect rats, you get rats. No surprise here.
How brain dead would you have to be to plan a vacation to NYC?
I worked in NYC in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
I quickly realized the New York City subway system is the worlds largest public urinal.
Are the rodent problems referring to the rats Cuomo and DeBlasio?
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