Major design flaw of the early Macintosh finally revealed

They do not fit into city trash cans...



Fifth Street at the Bowery this morning.

Also, can someone please ID this model?

Updated 10:20 am

Thank you Richard! (See comments.)

This is an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV CRT monitor from 1996.

In case you were thinking of taking this carpet back home

Second Avenue and Fifth Street this morning... a discarded carpet with a PSA... discovered by EVG reader Sam Teichman ...

"This is not one of those cool furniture street finds. To be clear it's a carpet riddled with dog poop & vomit. YOU DO NOT WANT THIS unless you particularly enjoy those scents, which to be clear, you shouldn't.

Also, the carpet was really ugly & in shit shape. Godspeed! X"

Noted

This mattress and frame are on Ninth Street near Avenue A... someone wrote "all things free & clean" ... and then "once owned by Basquiat" ...



Thanks to Steven for the photos

Summer, when the city could maybe splurge on another Big Belly for Tompkins Square Park

This morning...

VHS collection up for grabs

First Avenue and Ninth Street. Some cinema classics here, such as "Deep Blue Sea" and "Broken Arrow," which showed the world what Howie Long could be capable of before "Firestorm."

Anyway. Hurry before the rain starts!

Thanks to Wiliam Klayer for the photo!

New Year, new slippers

Apparently it's out with the Poop Emoji Slippers on the first day of 2017 here on 11th Street. (These are outside No. 424 between Avenue A and First Avenue if you want to adopt.)

Thanks to Christine Champagne for the photo!

Reader report: The trash at PS 15

An East Fourth Street resident shares this via the EVG inbox...

This is the chronic garbage situation on East Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D outside PS 15.

The top photo is the garbage that was put out on Friday afternoon and sat there all weekend until it was picked up yesterday. This is the norm. The bottom 2 photos are what was left AFTER the garbage pickup — a smaller, but still disgusting mess.





As you can see, the school puts out a slew of garbage bags and has created a dump site on the block. Apparently, they are held to a different standard and have a different garbage pickup schedule than residents on the block. This situation has created a major rat problem on the block and in the nearby community gardens. Rats can be seen swarming this mess at night and in the early morning. No amount of calls to 311 is bringing any improvement.

Trash can in the trash can

A reader shares this from Third Street and Avenue B... where someone is clearly flouting the city's ban on household trash in street trash cans ... by dumping an entire household trash can ...

Tranquil June Sunday ruined by sight of Santa hats

Oh, the day wasn't ruined! Just a reminder that it's just six more months to SantaCon!

Photo on 7th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue by EVG Day Ruiner Correspondent Derek Berg

Soon, the sidewalks might be free of discarded mattresses this evening

If this guy can just get a few more piled atop the van...to refurbish somewhere...

Photo on East Ninth Street this evening by EVG regular OlympiasEpiriot

When you put out a lot of trash bags on St. Mark's Place Saturday evening

You are treated to this on Sunday morning here in the Bubble Tea District between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...



Looks like the remains of someone's apartment. Contents include two basketballs and one bag of thawed frozen waffles.

No-frills gym debuts on East 6th Street

Between Avenue A and First Avenue. To keep costs down, patrons have to bring their own seat and take turns moving the garbage.

Photo today by Derek Berg

Reminders: Buy more glycerin and tincture of iodine

Spotted in the trash today on East Seventh Street ... an old-timey medicine cabinet with bottles of glycerin and tincture of iodine attached to the mirror...



Remember: For external use only!



Photos via Derek Berg

With CleaNYC, Mayor de Blasio declares war on litter, graffiti

[Random 1st Avenue photo from last month]

Mayor de Blasio today announced the formation of CleaNYC, "a holistic effort to keep communities clean in all five boroughs."

Per ABC 7:

The effort will include stepped up Graffiti-Free NYC efforts, sidewalk power washing in commercial corridors, the expansion of Sunday and holiday litter basket collection service, and high shoulder/ramp cleanup.

Graffiti-Free NYC will remove graffiti from private and public structures, power wash sidewalks and remove stains from street furniture. The new Graffiti-Free NYC trucks will be equipped with power inverters, allowing the equipment to run without using the engines or gas-powered generators.

Per DNAinfo:

"This is so important for the lives of everyday New Yorkers for whom their neighborhood is the center of their life," de Blasio said. "It's so important for our small businesses, it's important of our economy. And the people of this city deserve nothing less than the cleanest city we can make it."

Under the plan, announced a day ahead of the mayor's State of the City address, the Department of Sanitation will increase litter basket pickups on Sundays and holidays by 40 percent in heavily trafficked areas starting April 1 by adding 20 more trucks.

Per a city news release announcing the initiative, CleaNYC will cost $4.2 million in expense funds in Fiscal Year 2017, and $2.5 million in capital funds.

Handing out the litter summonses

A rep from a co-op on East Seventh Street wrote in … noting that the building had been hit with a "plague of litter summonses" of late… all of them citing "litter within 18 inches of the curb."

The question: Any other people/buildings in the neighborhood getting fined ($100 for the first offense) like this?

The residents feel as if their building has been singled out (they have received two within 11 days).

We looked at this PDF at the Department of Sanitation for an explanation on enforcement …

Residential Premise Enforcement Routing
Under the Enforcement Routing Program, enforcement agents patrol all areas including commercial, industrial, manufacturing and residential blocks at specified times focusing on violations for dirty sidewalks, dirty areas and failure to clean 18 inches into the street. During the enforcement routing time, when enforcement agents observe a dirty sidewalk, dirty area or an 18-inch violation in front of/adjacent to a residential premise, a notice of violation will be issued. Although enforcement agents will issue notices for dirty sidewalk, dirty area, or failure to clean 18 inches into the street violations only during the specified 2 one-hour daily routing time periods, they may issue notices for all other violations at any time.

Residential Premises
Residential routing times citywide have been set as follows:
8:00 AM to 8:59 AM and 6:00 PM to 6:59 PM

This issue of the Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary from May 2014 has a footnote-heavy article titled "Fighting Dirty Sidewalk Tickets in New York City."

You can dispose of some of that crap that you weren't exactly sure what to do with today

Passing this info along…

Union Square North Plaza, south of 17th St between Park Avenue and Broadway.

The NYC Department of Sanitation is holding a series of SAFE Disposal Events (Solvents, Automotive, Flammable, Electronics) to provide NYC residents with a one-stop method to get rid of harmful household products.

Materials accepted include common household products such as auto fluids, batteries, electronics, strong cleaners, medications, paint, month-old acai bowls and more.

Until 4 p.m. today. (And sorry for the short notice — just heard myself.)

Today in photos of discarded Bill Murray throw pillows

[Photo by Mike Wolf]

Spotted in the trash on East 10th Street and Avenue B… a $20 value!

Here are your all-new trash cans on Avenue A

A reader told us that they arrived today on the west side of the Avenue … check back tomorrow for our comprehensive review…

Meanwhile, remember not to litter…

When it comes time to dump your furniture on the street

According to this Urban Etiquette Sign maker on East Ninth Street near First Avenue ... "throw this bed away on trash night!!"



But is this really a bed?

Photos by Derek Berg

Discarded carpet of the day, probably

If that is actually carpet ditched here on East Fourth Street at the Bowery...



Photo via Derek Berg