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Clean Curbs Pilot ‘Not Scalable’ Citywide, Says DSNY Commish
The Department of Sanitation's test project to containerize trash pickup on one residential block won't work on a citywide level, the agency's chief said on Wednesday, so New York's Strongest will need a better strategy to clear Big Apple sidewalks of their notorious rubbish mountains.
March 15, 2023
NYCHA To Pilot ‘Clean Curbs for All’ — With Hopes of Full Containerization of Trash
The nation's largest housing authority will lead the city's effort on waste containerization, according to documents.
September 27, 2022
Sanitation Dept’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Program Spreads to Staten Island
Brooklyn's Pitkin Avenue BID also gets a trash corral as the containerization effort moves into more locations.
September 27, 2022
GROSS: ‘Clean Curbs’ Bins Show Growing Pains in Times Square
The Sanitation Department's "Clean Curbs" pilot — trash enclosures in Times Square that were installed a mere three months ago — is a bit of a mess.
July 20, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Clean Curbs’ Residential Bins To Launch in Hells Kitchen
A quiet block of W. 45th St. becomes a laboratory for shaving New York's '5 o'clock shadow.'
June 27, 2022
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
May 10, 2022
City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?
April 21, 2022
Council Seeks to Charge Property Owners For Curbside Garbage Containers
The city would install and maintain the bins — for a yearly fee.
November 20, 2024
DOT’s Upper West Side ‘Smart Curbs’ Struggles to Claw Back Free Parking
One local advocate said the whole point of the pilot was to test the idea of charging for valuable curb space on a large scale. So what happened?
October 29, 2024
SNOW PROBLEM? Sanitation Has Bigger Fleet of Bike Lane Plows, But Same Old Car-First Cleanup Plan
New York's Strongest are gearing up to clear bike lanes of snow this winter — but they must still wait for car lanes first.
November 23, 2022