We here in Kensington Brooklyn are all about the small steps. We realize things don't change over night and work hard to get the word out about our lack of services both business related and city supplied. The city supplied ones (or lack thereof) are the real kickers for us though! Don't get us wrong we know there are lots of other hoods who have problems with dog poo and garbage but if the can is full why do we only get bi-weekly pick up?! We digress... We've always maintained the reason for some of our garbage strewn streets and poo piles is because of our lack of cans and not just irregular pick up.Well, welcome ole mighty cherished garbage can! That's right, we got a new one on the corner of East 5th and Caton Ave. (Rejoice dog owners!) Of course, this comes with a catch... Because this is not a bi-weekly pick up spot (which doesn't make sense to us 'cause its only one of our major tertiaries!) but a weekly pick up spot the can is only here on a trial basis. That's right people use the can sparingly cause if gets too full instead of making it a regular pick up spot sanitation will just remove the can. Oh 311 why oh why do you tease us in this way!
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That makes no sense--as you point out. Why have a garbage can that you remove if people actually use it? And why is there no regular pick up if it's on a main artery? After all, there are always various garbage and other trucks speeding through Caton (and speeding through its red lights...)
I heard a rumor from a neighbor of mine that the reason a lot of garbage cans were taken away is b/c people used them to throw out regular household trash (ie. throwing out a large filled garbage bag as opposed to regular litter and such). This may be what the city is referring to. But that still doesn't make a lot of sense since i know of plenty of neighborhoods where this does happen frequently and the city still provides plenty of garbage cans and picks up the trash.
Use this website to request litter baskets: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/contact/requests_litter.shtml
Use this website for othe DSNY requests:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/contact/requests.shtml
Why you could spend hours on these sites ratting your friends and neighbors out to the DSNY!! Enjoy!!
Sorry, here's complete link fobasket requests:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/contact/requests_litter.shtml
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