Gothamist: Rats, Closings and Future of Garbage Disposal

robin.g

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:04:34 -0500

Lids on garbage cans in the bathroom is an easy fix. It's more sanitary. But do they need to close down for a week while someone runs to KMart and gets a garbage can?

David Jacobs

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:09:30 -0500

I hope they open soon.

y~

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:48:55 -0500

los angeles also has automated trash pickups, almost identical to the ones described as being used in paris. but here, there are unions to protect the jobs of garbagemen, not to mention that traffic couldn't handle being further impeded not just by double parked vehicles but trashcans that must, by necessity, be placed further out into the street than the vehicles so that the garbage trucks can access them. it's just not a simple issue any way you look at it.

pete

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:42:17 -0500

Yeah right public school cafs will be shut down. Govt doesnt attack govt.

cake

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:18:51 -0500

Parisians pay more taxes for luxury items such as sealed trash. If we want these things, we have to pay for them, which we aren't willing to do. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

steve

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:19:51 -0500

waaa waaa... we have to install a sink... waaaa!!!! we have to get a lid on our garbage cans!!!.... waaaaaa waaaaaa.... we have to spackle a hole waaaaaaaaaa!!@!$#@!$#

paris blows

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:13:58 -0500

hey SP move to paris

SP

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:29:13 -0500

NYC needs a modern trash disposal system. Right now, as everyone knows, we just pile up our black plastic trash bags on the sidewalk. In Paris, every building has heavy plastic bins on wheels with sealing lids that are designed to be picked up by the garbage trucks. Trash is kept sealed and off the street and impervious to rats. This would make a huge difference.

no one's patsie

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:08:09 -0500

Hopefully they'll close down Rao's while they're on the UES.

Tom

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:16:38 -0500

Heaven forbid that John's Pizza actually have sanitary conditions and, you know, follow the law. The world's smallest violin player is standing outside on Bleecker St. right now. There are health code violations and then there are rats running through a store. Having a sink a certain number of feet of a food prep area and lids on bathroom garbages goes on the "New York City/State has a dire need to over-regulate everything" list. There's "rat feces in the pepperoni" and "improper and unsanitary storage" violations and then there's the "rules we have to fuck you when we feel like it and need to look like we're doing something" type of violations. Tell me what, exactly, a bathroom garbage can lid has to do with sanitary food prep conditions?

Mark

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:03:32 -0500

Same thing happened to Patsy's on 118th and 1st last week. Also a "sink" issue. The place was closed on Thursday by the BoH, the owner appealed on Friday and won (!) but they couldn't reinspect for reopening until Monday, so they were shut all weekend. "Boo" on the city! Anytime the public suffers because of the city's own incompentence and corruption (see "KFC") it's truly a travesty.

MT

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:01:00 -0500

I was reading about what happened at John's this weekend. It really sounds like the city is trying to gloss over it's incompetence by targeting everyone whether deserved or not. It sounds to me like they are catching up innocent establishments in their dragnets and are going to cause a lot of damage to establishments that don't deserve it.

Benjamin Kabak

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:59:23 -0500

Heaven forbid that John's Pizza actually have sanitary conditions and, you know, follow the law. The world's smallest violin player is standing outside on Bleecker St. right now.