Keeping Newsboxes in Order
Via BHB, news of a campaign by Councilmember Yassky to address the disorderliness of newsboxes. Evidently, there are lots of rules about the location and condition that must be adhered to. If you notice an offending newsbox in the 33rd Council District, you can report it here and DOT will take punitive measures to the…
Via BHB, news of a campaign by Councilmember Yassky to address the disorderliness of newsboxes. Evidently, there are lots of rules about the location and condition that must be adhered to. If you notice an offending newsbox in the 33rd Council District, you can report it here and DOT will take punitive measures to the tune of up to $4,000.
If you like that story, here’s another: When crack was king, someone abandoned a car in front of my building. A couple apparently without another place to live moved into it. Then every dealer in the neighborhood started coming ’round to see if the shattered couple needed something to smoke.
First I had to learn that vehicles with plates are the police department’s responsibility and those without are dealt with by sanitation. I called the local sanitation garage every other day, but nothing happened for a couple weeks. I wasn’t necessarily looking for the car to disappear immediately, but I at least wanted to see the orange sticker that indicated sanitation had arranged for it to be picked up.
Finally I had enough. I called the garage, recounted the above, and told them that if it wasn’t gone by dark, I would chain the wreck to my truck and drag it out into the middle of the street. I closed, “I’m sure someone will come get it then.” It was gone in hours. Okay, so I don’t own a truck at that time, but they didn’t know that.
Caveat: This was before enhanced-911 and caller ID. My call would probably be traceable now. It would be so-New York for a city that couldn’t deal with a drug epidemic and abandoned cars to pop me with a Class D misdemeanor of some sort.
Ditto what Chicken and Dave said.
I like altervoce’s way of dealing with things
altervoce is my hero.
um that’s rude. how would you like it if someone took a poop on your stoop? it’s the same thing.
*r*
“I wish sanitation would just throw them into the garbage trucks.”
L Magazine deposited one of there boxes in front of my building. It looked like s#it in about three days. I fumed until I heard the garbage truck coming down the street. I asked the guys, “would you mind if I threw this in the truck while you weren’t looking?” They replied, “we didn’t see a thing,” and that was that. The base was damn heavy, filled with sand or something, but I was motivated!
whiteboy tags!
Cute
it’s the wind patterns that causes lots of garbage on the streets in brooklyn heights. i actually just read about that today. and it’s been very windy the last few weeks.
and yes ive noticed lots of graffiti too. it’s all over soho these days on empty storefronts. no one really seems to care to take it down though. it’s not even pretty graffiti, it’s just ugly boring monotone whiteboy tags.
*r*
Biff, I live in Park Slope, I lived in the Heights for many years until I decided to cash in. The Heights always had its Bohemian side and so the streets and especially the sidewalks (!) were always a mess and certainly not what you would expect from an exclusive area. No that I am in Park Slope, which NEVER had a Bohemian side, when I go back to the Heights, it seems uncared for, shoddy in spots. I know there are a lot of rent-controlled buildings in the Heights (the ones with the bare bulb at the door and the heaved sidewalks) but you would think that as the rest of Brooklyn becomes nicer, the Heights would keep up. But I don’t think that is the case. A shame because I think it is being left behind, not only by Park Slope but also by Cobble Hill and Fort Greene and who knows? in a few years, Prospect Heights.