New York City has initiated the next phase of its expanded collection enforcement actions. ‘Water Shutoff Notices’ will be sent stating that water service to their property could be shut off unless the entire owed amount is paid or the buildings enter into a payment...
"Taxation without sanitation is tyranny": Civil Rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York during the fall of 1962. Afro- Americans in New York Life and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Retrieved from http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/justice/downloads/pdf/taxation_without_...
“In urban environments, there are basically two types of buildings,” says Dan Wollman, CEO of Gumley Haft, a New York City property management firm. “Those with trash compactors, and those without. In those without compactors, we pick up the recycling and trash from different bins on eac...
(Vandamm collection, New York Public Library/bet.com) Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (1878–1949) is considered one of the greatest tap dancers of all time, introducing a style of remarkable lightness and complexity that was perhaps best represented by his famous stair dance. Oct. 6, 1934 cover...
NEW YORK-- Withanother winter stormin the forecast,New York Cityactivated its Winter Weather Emergency Plan on Monday. It's been over 700 days since the city got more than an inch of snow, DSNY wrote on X, formerly Twitter, but up to four inches could fall between 6 p.m. Monday and...
This article examines the history of one particular civil rights battle in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of New York City. The neighborhood suffered from inadequate garbage collection and other city resources. Discriminatory policies of the 1950s undermined the once-integrated community, leaving the area...
Parking is clearly the third rail of politics in New York City and residents of West Harlem, where the pilot will begin this fall, have mixed reactions. "I'm for the garbage cans because the rats around this neighborhood is outrageous," Carl Clark said. "Why couldn't they put the tr...
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However, according to Steven Cohen, the executive director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York, it’s not the transfer facilities or the garbage that causes the most environmental and human health concerns. “It’s the movement of the thousands of diesel trucks that have ...
Garbage collection in the city is a challenge. The city is working to reform its garbage collection system and a consulting company has been hired to study and design a program for garbage containerization. Part of the problem is the shortage of parking spaces in New York City overall which ...