trash/filth/7th ave

Subject: Some ideas

Start with the very image-driven boro president, Marty Markowitz.
Write a letter to the sanitation commissioner ... check nyc.gov ...
fyi his press flack is one Vito Turso - a good guy - maybe get to him ...
state assemblyman brennan always sends mailings that gunk up my mail box -check in there .. he puts his name on some of the fancier garbage cans ...
community bd six is also on the net, as well as the park slope civic council.
there's a start.
they don't call the 'hood pork slob for nothing.....
7th ave garbage is ongoing problem.
too many slobs and never just enough garbage cans.

people are slobs in nyc in general. but in some places the shop keepers would push the garbage onto the streets from the side walks and it looks better but doesnt slove the problem. 7ave shop keepers seem very lazy lol.

It's a shame that people don't have any regard for the environment in which they live.

I've been known (on numerous occasions) to shame people who throw litter in front of me......on the trains, etc. I usually start by very loudly saying "You dropped something" and staring at them until they pick it up.

I'm also the one saying "You're welcome" very loudy if I hold the door and they didn't say "Thank you". If they look confused I say "Ooops. I thought I heard you say "thank you"".

<---snarky biatch

Try my approach. It usually works..........and if it doesn't, it will at least make you laugh

*walks by and dumps more garbage on the slope!

I actually like the shaming idea. but i'm too much of a coward to say anything lol. problem with throwing garbage away is not enough street cans and alot of them are already full!

Rose wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]*walks by and dumps more garbage on the slope!

I actually like the shaming idea. but i'm too much of a coward to say anything lol. problem with throwing garbage away is not enough street cans and alot of them are already full!

Or they disappear. The one on my corner is often missing. Who on earth would steal a filthy sidewalk garbage can?!?

7th Ave is filthy in the south slope. It makes me want to move to the suburbs, and I hate the suburbs. My own street is vile. Just walking two blocks from my house to the park, the things I've seen lying on the sidewalk have included used condoms, dead rats, dead mice, dead giant roaches, stained underwear and other discarded clothing, used tampons, and of course dog poop, always.if i own a building in the area put up cameras and than post pictures of the litter bugs like mug shots up around the area to shame them!!!

Isn't there a merchant association you can bring this up to? Im sure these merchants are paying dues and sometimes a portion is used for clean up and beautification. Downtown Alliance in Manhattan really is a fine example of a good merchants association.

i think the home owners besides the store owners should do this too. clean up the side walks. this way they'll help with their property values and looks of th eplace.

Here is a radical idea:

Why don't you take your roommate, friend, spouse, and, or, kid out on a Sunday morning with gloves, a broom, plastic bags and one of those pinchy things and clean up one side of a block. It will clean it up for a few hours, shame the merchants who are too busy (lazy) to clean up, and maybe discourage a low-life from throwing something on the ground. If a few families did this one weekend we could really clean up the place.

I have not done anything like this myself on 5th or 7th Avenue, but I have done it on my block. It is fun. I should follow my own advice and do it on 5th Ave (which I live near).

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It's a good idea in theory, but my husband and I work hard all week to pay our high rent...the last thing we want to do on the weekends is clean up trash after park slope shopkeepers! Weekends are the one time we get to relax, go to a museum, visit galleries, go to the park--do the stuff that we live in NYC for. Maybe if we were a little younger...although I'm sure my grandmother would be out there sweeping the sidewalk.