The new $14.5 million effort calls for hiring 200 additional sanitation workers and creating a new evening shift within the New York City parks department, dedicated to rat mitigation efforts and tackling unsanitary “hot spots.”
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Facing continued complaints of trash-ridden streets, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced he would direct $14.5 million into what he said would be the city’s largest cleanup effort in decades.
Roughly 1,500 areas citywide have been deemed in severe need of cleanup and city resources under the initiative. The effort also calls for hiring 200 additional sanitation workers and creating a new evening shift within the city parks department, dedicated to rat mitigation efforts and tackling unsanitary “hot spots.”
The Adams administration referred to the allocation as “new funding,” but couldn’t immediately say where the money was coming from. “We have a real financial crisis, too, but a clean city is going to impact our recovery,” Adams said on Thursday during a Brooklyn press conference. “And New Yorkers deserve to have a clean city.”and more rat-infested since the pandemic began and as outdoor dining has proliferated.New Yorkers were allowed to bring out their trash, in hopes of shortening the period of time in which residents have to contend with the unsightly and smelly mountains of trash that pile up on city sidewalks.
The agency also gave a $4 million contract to the consulting firm McKinsey to study whether the city should adopt the use of
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