An unsettling find on 5th Street

An EVG reader shares these photos from Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... the reader did a double-take at this note...



At first, the reader thought this might be some kind of sick gag (as we've seen notes on curbside garbage bags in the past). However, upon closer inspection, it looked as if someone took care to wrap the contents inside the double plastic bag.

Apparently this is an acceptable way to dispose of a pet in NYC. According to the Department of Sanitation website:

The City accepts reports of dead animals. The City will collect a carcass from a public area or street (or from private property – if the animal may have been rabid, was killed by a family pet or scratched or bit a person or pet.) You may also place a dead animal in a heavy-duty black plastic bag or double plastic bag and put it out on the day of garbage collection with a note taped to the bag stating "dead dog" or "dead cat", for example. Animals that may have been rabid should not be put in the garbage. The City cremates dead pets for a fee, though the ashes are not returned to the animal’s owner.

Living in the plastic bag age

Just noting another one of the Citizens of the Anthropocene — the anthropomorphic race of plastic-bag humanoids that previously lived in the trees of Tompkins Square Park... this one is on St. Mark's Place east of Second Avenue...



Thanks to EVG reader Chris Rowland for the photos!

Pack your bags

[Photo by Steven]

A plastic-bag humanoid has taken up residence along the fence on Seventh Street at Second Avenue (the gas explosion site)... this is apparently one of the Citizens of the Anthropocene — the anthropomorphic race of plastic-bag humanoids that previously lived in the trees of Tompkins Square Park.

More might be on the way...

A post shared by Citizens of the Anthropocene (@citizensoftheanthropocene) on Jul 30, 2018 at 11:15pm PDT

The B Bar's Urban Etiquette Sign about their neighbor's trash

A rather amused EVG reader on the Bowery points us to this sign on the building next door to the B Bar.

To the tenants of this building
Please only put your garbage out on the days it is scheduled to be picked up. Do not put your garbage out over the weekend … The garbage on the street is unsightly and unsanitary.

Stern, but a reasonable enough request! Maybe!

The reader then pointed out the B Bar's own unsightly mound of garbage bags yesterday morning near East Fourth Street waiting for private pickup…

One man's dream: Colorful trash bags in the city

From today's Metro New York:

Adrian Kondratowicz is tired of the “bland and mundane” black trash bags tossed onto city sidewalks. His dream is to see an entire swath of Manhattan south of 14th Street lined with cheerily colorful polka dotted bags for at least one week.

That’s still the goal of his project, TRASH:anycoloryoulike, but for now, the Helmut Lang model-turned-artist has scaled down his vision to a handful of installations using bright pink biodegradeable bags.

“It was difficult to get sponsorship,” Kondratowicz said. “Everyone liked the idea, but no one wanted to write me a check. So I wrote myself one.”

He coughed up $8,000 to make eco-friendly bags because he “didn’t want to create more waste.” They decompose in one to seven years.

And thank you for answering my question. Cost.

The bags are costly to make and are not yet a “mass product,” Kondratowicz noted. He sells signed bags as collectors items — or for trash, if a buyer chooses. The bags range from $10 for the pink with white polka dots to $25 for gold dots.

Meanwhile, don't mind me. I need to do this.