Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
If you've walked through Tompkins Square Park in the past week, you may have noticed a long row of new black metal enclosures lining a fence in the center.
We're told that the enclosures are designed to keep garbage out of sight while helping reduce odors and limit access for rats and other pests.
The bins are part of the city's broader containerization efforts, which replace exposed trash bags with enclosed waste storage. (They are currently locked and empty ... no word on when they will be put into use.)
Whether they'll make a noticeable dent in the park's persistent rat population remains to be seen, though keeping trash contained would seem like a step in the right direction...
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Containerization is going to be a long slog. This is a solid step in the right direction!
I think we've all seen bags of trash in TSP, sometimes literally hung on fences. Getting that trash into bins will certainly help control the pest population... it can't hurt!
vandalized. Not tagged. But it's your blog so.
Tagged/vandalized, vandalized/tagged. Didn't someone once sing about how "the words of the prophets are written on the [trash bin] walls"? Respect our past - enjoy our present.
Thank you to Parks Dept for listening to us about the need for containerized trash in TSP. All trash cans should be rat-proof, but this is a step in the right direction.
The rats are a major food source for the hawks. The big problem was using poison, which is a stupid human idea that doesn’t work. I guess we’ll see how this plays out.
Wait; this is for temporary storage till DSNY carts the collected trash off site.
So where exactly are these bins being located?
The rats will get in. They will be inside the bags before they are placed in the bins. They will eat through the bottoms. The rats in Tompkins are super rats. Nothing will stop them.
They ugly and not in use
I always wonder why it's perfectly fine to feed the pigeons, as if the bread chunks only appeal to birds and not rats.
It’s actually not fine to feed the pigeons. The extra food causes them to reproduce beyond the natural capacity of the park to provide food. In general, don’t feed wildlife.
Jesus Christ. Nobody wants to be walking past filthy dumpsters when they're in the park. This is like the morons that want to have massive sticky smelly graffitied dripping dumpsters along the curb instead of a couple of hours of bags that could just get picked up on a well-run schedule. Nobody wants to be walking by this shit 24/7. Not to mention that takes even more parking spots. Very strange things happening lately.
They couldn't hide these somewhere? Or just pickup the trash like they're supposed to instead? SMDH
I think it's ugly and not the solution.
Placement is so wrong.People should just have less trash. I personally very rarely have debris to put in a public trash can. It's going to be tagged and destroyed in no time.
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