During the pandemic, New York is mired in trash: in which areas it is most
'04.05.2021'
Olga Derkach
Thousands of townspeople have staged the COVID-19 pandemic, urging New York to do a spring cleaning. The number of garbage complaints in 2020 almost doubled compared to 2019. Patch.
As New Yorkers began to emerge from quarantine last summer, they noticed more and more debris all over the city. The city's cleanliness, or lack thereof, has become such a hot topic that cleaning has become the mainstay of Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to accelerate the city's recovery.
About 10 new urban workers - the City Cleaning Corps - are ready to pick up trash and perform other landscaping work. The program is funded by federal funds and costs $ 000 million.
“People will be removing graffiti there, decorating parks, helping our wonderful streets to be as beautiful as possible,” said de Blasio. "We have so many things to do and now we have a dedicated team of New Yorkers to make the city shine."
But whatever the power of the program, there are likely to be workers in many hot spots.
Dirty parks
According to 311, the vast majority of garbage complaints during the pandemic came from city parks.
The data shows that there have been more than 1 garbage complaints in parks since January 2020, 5.
Brooklyn had the largest share of complaints with 1, followed by the Bronx with 899 complaints.
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According to the data, the largest number of complaints was caused by the Bronx zip code 10468, in which Deveaux Park is located, at 260.
Its neighboring zip code 10457 - next to the Bronx Zoo - received the second highest number of complaints at 192.
Brooklyn Zip Code 11235 - Brighton Beach - 131 Complaints.
In fact, a group of five southern Brooklyn zip codes near Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay ranked among the top five most common garbage complaints in parks.
It:
- 11235 - 131 complaints
- 11214 - 97 complaints
- 11224 - 91 complaints
- 11234 - 90 complaints
- 11229 - 85 complaints.
Dirty sidewalks
Sheepshead Bay's single address, 2601 Avenue U, has generated the most complaints about trash near the sidewalk trash bin.
He had nine such complaints from June 4, 2020 to February 24.
In general, there were fewer complaints about littered sidewalks than in parks - 551 sidewalk complaints were received throughout the city.
The data shows Queens had the most: 142 complaints about "dirty sidewalks."
Five addresses received the most complaints:
- 2601 Avenue U - 9 complaints
- 127-01 Svobody Avenue - 4 complaints
- 167-18 Hillside Avenue - 4 complaints
- 450 City Island Avenue - 4 complaints
- 1558 Westchester Avenue - 3 complaints.
Summer splash
The data shows that the decline in garbage complaints in the spring of 2020 intensified significantly over the first summer of the pandemic.
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Between April and June 2020, New Yorkers filed 1045 garbage complaints - about the same as in the same period in 2019.
But from July to September 2020, the number of complaints increased to 2 832. According to the data, for the same months in 2019 there were 1440 of them.
The city hopes to recruit 10 people hired by City Cleanup Corps by July, which may coincide with another spike in garbage complaints.
De Blasio said officials are also planning to support community groups to carry out their own cleanups.
“A lot of people just clean it up themselves,” he said during a recent briefing. "We want to help people who help us."
