Why has it taken this long to deal with their own trash?
Real answer: NYC has such insane amount of residential trash that it’s actually more efficient to have someone (usually a super) just prepare the trash in specifically designed industrial bags on the curb 2x week. Like the amount is so large no single bin like this could manage any amount of trash, so they don’t even bother loading bins they just process the bags directly into the garbage trucks. My building actually has like 15 bins like these where we can store our trash for the off days and our super sorts it all when the collection comes - they’re all usually full 2x week.
So switching to a bin only system would be require either more collection days (an insane amount of spending SDNY is tax dollars) or we’re just gonna get overflow trash on the street in shitty, easy to break homeuse bags. For reference there’s zero trash on my street unless it’s collection day and the city designated bags for those are pretty much indestructible and rarely spill trash.
have someone (usually a super) just prepare the trash in specifically designed industrial bags
This sounds like a job for Garbage Bag Man! heroic theme music swells
Can’t someone else do it?
Because New Jersey has always been right there.
Yeah we know, NYC is the idiot big brother of American cities whose greatest accomplishment was making QB in the highschool team.
Just like LA is the spoiled little shit brother and Chicago is the hard working one that never quite gets ahead anyway.
San Francisco: “guys, I’m gay”
USA: “we know, dude”
Miami: bursts in “yo anyone got any coke?”
USA: “shut up, Miami”
Detroit: “…I can get you some coke”
Texas: What kind of Coke do you want? Mt Dew, Sprite, Big Red?
Texas isn’t a city, nor do they have any world class cities, unlike other more civilized states.
FYI, Houston is the 4th largest city in the US by population
And probably the 400th best at most.
Add another zero on there and you’ll be in the ballpark
Isn’t that mostly because they claim a ridiculously massive metro area? What’s the density like?
Lots of other places do too. That’s why true city size should be counted as the metropolitan population, not just the city borders. In that case, Houston is 5th, beaten by Dallas/Fort Worth at 4th, which surprisingly means Texas has 2 metropolitan areas out of in the top 5 in the country.
This simply isn’t backed by statistics. While Houston is the 4th most populous American city, it’s only ~200th in density. If “Lots of other places [did] too,” then they wouldn’t be half as far down that second list.
Honestly, as a Canadian I don’t think north america has any world class cities.
Really? NYC? Come on, you’re just doing the “murica bad” edgy teenager thing.
I’m surprised it’s universally downvoted as mindless shitting on America is a pretty sure bet for upvotes on Lemmy.
It’s weird that having a differing opinion of what makes a city world class means I’m “mindlessly shitting on america”.
It’s just my opinion. A world class city imo should have excellent public transportation, cycling infrastructure, parks and public gathering spaces, and traffic calmed commercial districs. Basically a world class city should have a lot of things worth visiting and infrastructure that lets you visit those places easily and comfortably without relying on a car.
No north american city meets those standards in the way that some european cities do.
…so do you not believe there are any world-class cities, period? I can find exceptions for every single city in the list of requirements you laid out.
You’ve never even HEARD of the NYC subway?
Dude, just stop having opinions, you’re clearly not informed enough.
Midwesterner detected. I bet you think your lakes are great too!
Disclaimer: judging by admittedly short visits to all three, I too prefer Chicago, but I couldn’t NOT do the joke 😉
haha this is perfect
Don’t forget the drug addicted brother, Philadelphia!
Eric Adams, whose dislike of trash and rats is well-documented
Weird statement
It’s possible to like rats. I like rats. I had a couple as pets.
I don’t particularly care for the type you see in New York coming out of the sewer, but…
Clicking through and reading the link, he’s clearly talking about the rat problem in NYC. Not pet rats.
I’m aware.
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Sure. I was hoping a day later you would come by and harass me as usual. Now stop harassing me all the time.
I’m willing to bet the last time we crossed paths was like a week ago. Why are you so desperate to be a victim of harassment? Is this going to be your go-to every time you find yourself on the wrong side of an issue?
Stop harassing me.
Yall just getting trash heelys??
Nothing he said was even that bad. He said “our revolution” which is talking about the changes happening in NYC. And we’re going to dedicate a whole article to what people on social media have said about it? Wtf?
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