It looks like Sanitation is taking care of business but would you call this corner clean?
We revisited last week’s mess and noticed right away that the trash can was nowhere near full. It appears that sanitation workers made a point of emptying it this morning, as well as carting away any over-sized pieces of litter that had collected over the weekend.
Which brings us to this week’s mess, which I thought of after examining the above photo. Would you call this corner clean?
A major problem in Bensonhurst, as well as New York City on the whole, is the state of our streets- simply put, they’re almost never truly clean. The old timers out there may remember when, not all that long ago, store owners and sanitation workers could regularly be seen cleaning our streets and sidewalks of grime. Today, the streets of Southern Brooklyn are probably the filthiest they’ve been since paved asphalt and the automobile replaced dirt roads and horses in the 1920′s.
There are many reasons for this. Under-staffing at the Department of Sanitation, increased littering, population growth, exponentially increased water rates and calls for water conservation have all contributed to decidedly dirtier streets and less accountability for building owners, businesses and the city. Click here for one possible solution
