By Kim Velsey 10/12/12 2:15pm

Plains Trains & Automobiles

Does litter stop if it doesn't stop here? (Stephen Nessen/WNYC)

Upper East Side Straphangers Think Trash Can Removal Is Complete Garbage

You can take away the garbage cans but can you take away the garbage? The MTA, in expanding its no trash can pilot program last month claimed that the program would make subway stations trash can, and thereby trash, free. But Upper East Side residents, who have been left holding the coffee cup/apple core/dirty napkins, say that the policy has done just the opposite.

In a recent survey conducted by Council member Jessica Lappin’s office, 66 percent of 218 respondents said that they’d noticed more trash at the 57th Street F Train station since the garbage cans went away. But even people who hadn’t slipped on any banana peels in the last 30 days thought the removal was a bad idea—93 percent of 515 respondents. Read More

By admin 1/04/09 8:55pm

What’s Happening to New York City’s Garbage?

While New York City’s inadequate waste management system is one of my constant themes or perhaps obsessions, at the end of December, the New York Post published a wonderful "man bites dog:" story: The amount of garbage we are producing is going down! David Seifman, one of the Post’s terrific political journalists reported that Read More

By Azi Paybarah 9/10/07 8:19pm

Felder Tweaks, Trashes Sanitation Tickets

Now that Simcha Felder is beefing up his campaign staff in a preparation for a possible citywide bid, it occurred to me that this might be a little bit what his candidacy would look like.

It’s a clip taken earlier this week of Felder demonstrating some legislative dexterity. He offers a minor Read More