Showing posts with label trash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trash. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Today in epic poems discarded on 2nd Avenue
Derek Berg spotted a copy of "Hermann and Dorothea" up for grabs on Second Avenue... hard to read the inscription, dated 1883, because of the lack of emojis...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Recycling day on 6th Street
Saturday, September 16, 2017
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.
Sunday, July 2, 2017
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"
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
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
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Summer, when the city could maybe splurge on another Big Belly for Tompkins Square Park
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
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!
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Sunday, January 1, 2017
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!
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
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 ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016
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
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Soon, the sidewalks might be free of discarded mattresses this evening
Sunday, March 13, 2016
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.
Looks like the remains of someone's apartment. Contents include two basketballs and one bag of thawed frozen waffles.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
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
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
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
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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."
Sunday, August 23, 2015
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 bowlsand more.
Until 4 p.m. today. (And sorry for the short notice — just heard myself.)
Monday, June 1, 2015
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