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April 19, 2012
Michael Bloomberg Talks Trash: Will Mayor's Waste-to-Energy Plan Survive Critics?
New York has a lot of trash! (Both the people-kind and the garbage can-kind.) Today, though, Mayor Mike is concerned with the latter: He wants to build what's called a waste-to-energy plant, a fancy way to describe an electricity-generating, trash-processing factory. His administration is accepting ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Life in the Pig City: New Yorkers Love Public Dumping
Here's some good news for the giant rats galavanting through our fair city (and bad news for the rest of us who want to avoid disease): Stats show that a decent amount New Yorkers are complete dirtbags who really like to dump their trash in public.
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November 17, 2011
There's a Lot of Trash in Williamsburg and Greenpoint
Two neighborhoods in New York City are trashier than ever, at least, in a manner of speaking. According to a new study released today, there are more garbage trucks in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where 19 of New York City's 58 waste transfer stations are located -- "362 trucks per hour at si ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
That Tainted Turkey Is Still Out There; A Call for Global Salt Intake Reduction
That salmonella-tainted turkey that's been going around? It's sickened more people, at least 107 in 31 states by now. [US News and World Report] Kraft is promoting its new Velveeta Cheesy Skillets, a line of just-add-meat pasta dinner kits, with a series of ads that invite women to "use thei ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
NYPD Once Again Dumps Police Documents in Public Trashcan
viaBack in May, Bucky Turco over at Animal NY discovered a bunch of seemingly rather sensitive NYPD documents -- just a counterterrorism plan and whatnot -- plopped in a garbage can in front of NYPD's Manhattan South Task Force station at 42nd Street. He wrote about it (and so did we) hoping ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Brooklyn Once Had Huge Pot Plants Growing Wild
In the not-so-distant past, Brooklyn was filled with marijuana plants "as tall as Christmas trees" in vacant lots, as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle in 1951. Ben Gocker, a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, recently found clippings in a folder called "Crime: Drugs: Marijuana," which de ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Everybody's Investigating Sanitation Snowbatoge
So who isn't investigating The Great Snow Clean-Up Fuck-Up of 2010? After nearly a week of nonstop bitching, public agencies are finally cracking down on what went wrong with the city's blizzard response last week (or at least angling for some good publicity). The feds have reportedly launched a ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
NYC Garbage Pickup Is "Egalitarian," If Snow Plowing Is Not
via Bowery BoogieThe streets may still be covered in garbage, but, hey, looking on the bright side, the Sanitation Department is being fair about it...at least according to the New York Times, which reports, "The process was, at least in appearance, more democratic than the system for snow pl ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
Garbage-Pocalypse Follows Snow-Pocalypse: This Is Your Life, New York
Gosh, don't you sort of miss the early days of the blizzard about now? It was all pretty and clean (for a moment), and we were all "trapped" on vacation. And now things are back to normal, sort of, except smellier and with more bags of trash hanging around with which to attract vermin and vom ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
Day Four: Your Blizzard Post-Mortem Roundup
Daily NewsMayor Bloomberg has promised to find out why the city's blizzard response was so crappy, but the tabloids may have beat him to the punch. The Daily News has a thorough look today at what happened, while a New York Post report accuses sanitation saboteurs of purposefully slowing down the ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Sanitation Department Doesn't Even Know If Your Street Is Clear
Has your street been cleared yet? Turns out the city's cleanup workers aren't really sure. The New York Times talked to the city's Department of Sanitation today and found that the city's method of tracking street maintenance during snowstorms is (surprise!) "notably incomplete and potential ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
"New York's Appliances Caper" Is a Thing Now
Discarded appliances -- you know, the old or broken ones you leave on the curb because you don't want them anymore -- are vanishing throughout the city. But fear not! The New York Times (and the city's Department of Sanitation) are on the case.
Blogs
July 27, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg Toys With Charging for Trash Collection, Nothing is Off Limits
Budget cuts: necessary stink, but potentially smellier if trash collection moves up on Bloomberg's agenda to get our city back in the black. At a recent press conference, the mayor mentioned possibly charging residents for garbage collection as the city already does for restaurants and busine ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2010
City Revokes Plan to Remove Memorial Ghost Bikes
Yesterday, we reported that the Sanitation Department had proposed a removal of the approximately 67 "ghost bikes" scattered through the city in memorial to those who've died in cycling accidents. However, according the Daily News, the city has had a change of heart after an outcry from frien ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2009
Staten Island Mob Takedown Includes Sanit Chief, Court Officer, and Head of Top Tomato
A city Sanitation Department chief; his father-in-law, an alleged Gambino family soldier; the owner of the popular Staten Island supermarket chain, Top Tomato, long-suspected by locals of having mob ties; and a New York State Court Officer are among 22 people arrested today in an organized cr ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2009
Is Mayor Bloomberg Expropriating City Resources to Further His Campaign?
NY1 reports this morning that 18-20 sanitation, anti-graffiti, and steam-cleaning trucks recently descended on Inwood in preparation for a campaign appearance by Mayor Bloomberg scheduled for that afternoon. Residents seemed astonished as city personnel removed graffiti, swept up garbage, ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2009
Robber Killed as Getaway Car is Hit by a Truck
The man beating a woman in commission of a robbery at West 52nd and Broadway around three this morning probably thought he had it macked: when a cop car pulled up to intervene, he simply jumped into a waiting getaway car being driven by another woman, presumably of his acquaintance, and they took of ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2008
Today's Fun Map: Top Brooklyn Polluters!
The man beating a woman in commission of a robbery at West 52nd and Broadway around three this morning probably thought he had it macked: when a cop car pulled up to intervene, he simply jumped into a waiting getaway car being driven by another woman, presumably of his acquaintance, and they took of ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2007
Naomi Leaves Dept. of Sanitation in Couture
The man beating a woman in commission of a robbery at West 52nd and Broadway around three this morning probably thought he had it macked: when a cop car pulled up to intervene, he simply jumped into a waiting getaway car being driven by another woman, presumably of his acquaintance, and they took of ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2007
Trash: NYC's Latest Fashion Trend?
The man beating a woman in commission of a robbery at West 52nd and Broadway around three this morning probably thought he had it macked: when a cop car pulled up to intervene, he simply jumped into a waiting getaway car being driven by another woman, presumably of his acquaintance, and they took of ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2006
Judge Trashes Bid to Block City Garbage Plan
The man beating a woman in commission of a robbery at West 52nd and Broadway around three this morning probably thought he had it macked: when a cop car pulled up to intervene, he simply jumped into a waiting getaway car being driven by another woman, presumably of his acquaintance, and they took of ... More >>
News
July 25, 2006
Dumping on Everyone Else
Trash plan relieves our neighborhoods, but west of the Hudson, it's just more of the same old garbage from New York City
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March 21, 2006
Garbage Fight
Union says waste kings trash a health plan for workers
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September 10, 2002
The Unkindest Cuts
Lost Jobs Tough to Recycle
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May 21, 2002
Waste. Not!
Fresh Kills Becomes an Urban Artwork
News
March 7, 2000
Trashing the Point
Residents Oppose Bronx Waste-Transfer Site
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December 15, 1998
Giuliani Trashed
Residents Oppose Bronx Waste-Transfer Site

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