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City trash inspectors have been checking out neighborhoods all around town and say that the South Shore of Staten Island has the cleanest streets. The dirtiest? Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, where residents tell the Daily News that drivers litter the streets. A church administrator said, "It seems every time we sweep, more trash comes."
How do trash inspectors rate the streets? There's a scale, and according to the News, "3.0 is the dirtiest rating and 1.0 is the cleanest, meaning there are no traces of trash. Only streets below 1.5 are 'acceptably clean.'" (Bed-Stuy was 86% "acceptably clean.") The inspectors are independent contractors who the city has hired since the 1970s to survey the streets. Inspector Edwin Cuevas, a 14 year veteran, says, "3.0 are very difficult to find nowadays. The most you find is a 2.0, which is pretty dirty." He declared a street that had a cigarette carton, juice box and ripped garbage bag an "1.8."
The neighborhoods with clean streets: Unsurprisingly, it's the one that are very residential - S.I.'s Tottenville and Great Kills, Queens' Douglaston and Little Neck, and the Bronx's Riverdale. Trash-strewn neighborhoods tend to have more business, such as Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
Here's an FAQ from the Department of Sanitation. And you can tell the DOS about an overflowing public litter basket or request one for your street.
Photograph of a Park Slope sidewalk from 2006 by davidfg on Flickr; davidfg wrote at the time "To the person who believes that 6th Avenue between St. Marks Place and Flatbush is a perfectly fine place to dispose of household trash several times a week, spawning small rubbish tornadoes all over: I will find out who you are. One day you will pay." It's unclear whether the trash-dumper stop his/her rude ways.
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I had that very same problem then I first moved into my current house . First it was the neighbor next door who wasn't keeping his sidewalk clear of debris . I received about [8] tickets for that and set up a camcorder to catch him in the act . Turns out it wasn't him and was his niece who was responsible for the dumping . Sadly I had to sue him to get my money back . The poor guy was in a wheelchair suffering from Parkinson's Disease and had no way of maintaining his property himself . The niece would just toss all the trash over into my yard and act like it was mine ! The Judge viewed the tape and sentenced the niece to clean up all the trash and pay off the summons I received in exchange for no jail time . I didn't think there would be a jail sentence for something like this but that judge was serious and appalled she would do something like this to her sickly uncle . I got my money back a month later and she's still here taking care of her uncle and not dumping on my property !
Love it, I walked by that corner frequently for 3 years... the trash was almost always there. It didn't bother me though, it just reminded me of the end scene in Brazil.
any neighborhood with a significant population of latinos, specifically dominicans, will be a shit hole pig sty.
Ironic that a place that used to house all of the city's garbage has the cleanest streets... and one day Staten Island will become as expensive as the rest of the city and they'll be complaining about hipsters and high rents and garbage...
That's ironic considering Staten Island has no street cleaning to speak of.
comment #3 is correct. i also find that the blacks are responsible for a disproportionately large amount of trash on the city streets. they fail to use trash receptacles, even when they are close by, and think nothing of tossing garbage on the street. i think it's time that we brought segregation back, and stick all the porch monkeys in the bronx where they belong -- the bronx zoo that is!
Theres little trash in Staten Island because population density there is far lower than that of the other boroughs. Staten Islanders are not cleaner, theres just less of them to litter about.
Seems to me more trash can be found in these postings! There is really no need to get racist.
"SP" and "your mom", you're parents have failed you.
Have you ever lived in a Dominican neighborhood? I dont agree with #6's idiotic segregation comment which is disgusting. But as far as my own comment goes, it is plain fact. My solution would be a loud public campaign of humiliation, billboards put up in those neighborhoods saying "you live like a bunch of filthy pigs" and a suspension of sanitation service until the people learn to behave better.
In the meantime, for your own education, try spending some time in Washington Heights. Get off the subway at 125th street and walk uptown on Broadway. You'll see as soon as you enter the Dominican neighborhoods at around 137th, and up, what I'm talking about. Then try living there for four years. I'm certain you will be enlightened.
In Staten Island there is also less pedestrian street traffic - it's a suburban car culture, so there are less opportunities for people to throw shit around.
Some of You people have some serious issues !
I wouldn't label all latinos the same way. South/Central Americans are generally well-behaved and clean. It is the carribean latinos that are the problem. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans contribute greatly to the trash problem. There I said it, sorry if I wasn't politically correct for you. Show me a clean PR neighborhood.
Wipe away that white guilt and open your eyes.
You know, I hate topics here where race is used as a trump card . For the record ALL races are litterbugs ! It's not just a select group of folks, We all do it at one point or another . Is litter a problem in certain neighborhoods ? Yes it is, Why you ask ? Because the folks living in that hood either don't care, OR they feel it's not their problem they didn't do it so it's accepted . Pride in ones area is essential here, Sadly that's what's lacking here & that's something that crosses all lines including race !