Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about garbage

Side-by-side, before-and-after renderings show what a trash enclosure will look like at 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. The Times Square Alliance is set to install such an enclosure there and in the street at 43rd and Eight Avenue on April 18. Images: CITIBIN

Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures

By Eve Kessler | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.

Welcome to New York, where pedestrians walk amid leaking, stinking garbage bags.

Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project

By Eve Kessler | Apr 11, 2022 | No Comments

The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.

A Round and a Roundy: Why is Any of This Normal?

By Streetsblog | Jan 13, 2022 | No Comments

Why do we normalize some completely atrocious things about New York life?