Council Philistine Tackles A Topic He Knows - Trash
While he may be a man with a rather limited appreciation of architecture and history, Simcha Felder does know his trash. The city councilman from the 44th district, who earned our eternal disrespect with his comments about 184 Kent Avenue (“This is a piece of trash,” he said. “We should knock it down and put…
While he may be a man with a rather limited appreciation of architecture and history, Simcha Felder does know his trash. The city councilman from the 44th district, who earned our eternal disrespect with his comments about 184 Kent Avenue (“This is a piece of trash,” he said. “We should knock it down and put something nice up”) has finally done something we can agree with. Felder is introducing a bill tomorrow that will seek to reduce the fine on property owners for first-time trash offenses from $100 to $50; it would also shift the ticketing window from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. to give people a chance to get home from work to clean up mess that passers-by have more than likely been responsible for creating.
Lawmaker Proposes Slashing Trash Fines [NY Sun]
City Council Rejects 184 Kent as “Piece of Trash” [Brownstoner]
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I got a $100 ticket at 8:05am last week because a bum ripped open some garbage bags.
This was in front of a multifamily in Manhattan. Are the window time periods different here?
My workers, like most workers, don’t start till 9:00am. Ticketing that much that early is plain abusive. Somebody should sue the DEP for harrassment.
184 Kent is a piece of trash. Every old building doesn’t need to be “preserved”. The owners, not city bureaucrats should decide.
I’m with anon 12:10. Move the ticket window, but keep the fines high.
I’m often disgusted how dirty and litter filled our streets in NY are.
There maybe a couple areas where enforcement agents are over zealous
but wish they would come around my area and ticket all the overflowing and uncovered trash cans, trash cans/recycling stored on sidewalks and homes that obviously haven’t cleaned up in front in months.
I wish they would RAISE not lower the trash fines. I am happy to have the times changed so people actually get a chance to clean up the trash but I don’t want it any more affordable to not clean up. We have a real trash problem on our street in Crown Heights and I frequently pick up trash along the entire block.
Before individual merchants, they should crackdown on those coupon newspapers or circulars. I find it hard to keep up with the 10 or so a day dropped in front of my building. then thers all the loose ones flying down the street on a windy day. They are by far the biggest contributors to litter in my neighborhood.
That’s a good idea. Next, to figure out a way to ticket merchants who distribute literature and menus, drop it on stoops and wait for mother Nature to distribute. Thanks to one merchant, about 1500 dollars worth of tickets were written on my block this month.