{"id":198400,"date":"2021-03-10T05:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hey-de-blasio-wheres-that-stinkin-cleanup-you-promised\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T05:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:03:18","slug":"hey-de-blasio-wheres-that-stinkin-cleanup-you-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hey-de-blasio-wheres-that-stinkin-cleanup-you-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hey, de Blasio, where\u2019s that stinkin\u2019 cleanup you promised?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hey, de Blasio, where\u2019s that stinkin\u2019 cleanup you promised?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Somewhere\u00a0in the piles of garbage lining the streets of Bushwick, residents might find Mayor de Blasio\u2019s word.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been six months since the mayor promised to pump more money into the city\u2019s street-cleaning efforts. And the trash problem has only gotten worse.<\/p>\n

De Blasio in September announced initiatives to reallocate Sanitation Department funding to bolster litter-basket pickups in communities hit hardest during the pandemic, including Bushwick in Brooklyn. But according to the official mayoral report of \u201cacceptably clean city streets,\u201d street cleanliness there plummeted to 33.3 percent in January, compared with 86.1 percent the month before.<\/p>\n

The same neighborhood scored 95.4 percent a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to look at our streets and say we\u2019re delivering the services residents have come to expect,\u201d said City Councilman Antonio Reynoso, a Democratic candidate for Brooklyn borough president who chaired a hearing last week for the Committee on Sanitation and Solid-Waste management with the mayor\u2019s newly app<\/a>ointed acting sanitation commissioner, Edward Grayson.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed his promise to to start sweeping up NYC\u2019s dirty streets.<\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are still working to try to figure out where we are going to land,\u201d Grayson said, blaming the pandemic for the reduction of street cleaning to once a week.<\/p>\n

Grayson said the department was planning to continue with the same financial and personnel resources it has been working with throughout the pandemic. In other words: staying the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cuts we have seen are still in place,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are trying to build a plan to adapt to that headcount moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reynoso said the city would create a public-health crisis on top of the current one by trying to do more with less when it comes to waste management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re OK with a dirty city so long as they\u2019re saving a couple of bucks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Community groups in Bushwick, such as the Clean Bushwick Initiative, which was formed in 2016, have been plastering social media<\/a> with pictures of dirty streets clogged with litter and debris, with captions like, \u201cUnder no circumstances should this be acceptable!\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian Cotrina, editor of the hyperlocal media project This Bushwick Life, said the community was on the upswing before the pandemic hit last year but the piles of trash festering on its sidewalks have halted that progress, creating bigger issues, such as worsening rat infestations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2021, Bushwick feels like \u2018The Walking Dead\u2019 stage,\u201d Cotrina said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe neighborhood is full of trash and rats. You cannot walk around Bushwick without spotting overflowing garbage cans, mattresses, furniture, large bundles of garbage bags waiting to be picked up. The longer the garbage bags sit at the curb waiting to be picked up, the worse it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Blasio\u2019s 2021 budget slashed more than $100 million from the Sanitation Department in an attempt to close an estimated $9 billion deficit, bringing the number of litter-basket routes across the city down from 736 to 272. The cuts were so drastic that then-Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia included them in her scathing resignation letter last year.<\/p>\n

The problem was underscored in September, when state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s office released an audit that found two-thirds of the city streets it sampled were filthy. In October, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a Democratic candidate for mayor, organized his own community cleanup in the area.<\/p>\n

Gov. Cuomo even suggested sending the National Guard to the city to help clean things up.<\/p>\n

For all the bluster, nothing has changed \u2014 New York\u2019s streets are filthy.<\/p>\n

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Trash is piled up at the corner of Stanhope Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn on March 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
James Keivom \/ NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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