Sunset Park Alt Side Parking
I really have an issue with Sunset Parkers having to deal with alternate side parking 4x a week. I can understand commercial areas such as 5th avenue that might need more attention. But most residential blocks DO NOT need to be cleaned 4x a week. Its great that some parts in Bay Ridge is 1x…
I really have an issue with Sunset Parkers having to deal with alternate side parking 4x a week. I can understand commercial areas such as 5th avenue that might need more attention. But most residential blocks DO NOT need to be cleaned 4x a week. Its great that some parts in Bay Ridge is 1x a week and we know the Park Slope situation. I called Felix Ortiz about this and he said it has been in discussion for a long time. I read in the paper about the Dept of Sanitation’s union not wanting to cut shifts. Why dont we have them clean parts of the city that needs cleaning? School playgrounds, parks, etc!
They started 4xs a week thing on my Sunset Park block a year ago, but I figured it had to do with trying to keep non-resident cars from camping out here, which commuters do since I live near the 36th St. Express stop.
I think it tends to favor residents, so I don’t mind and am usually able to work time things so I only move the car twise a week (unless HD calls).
I am disgusted by the use of the street as communal litter box, although it is the passerbys and that do the littering, so maybe the frequent cleaning is still necessary. What’s with that? I know I wasn’t raised that way.
Same deal in Bushwick.
guikazoid’s comment is on point. As is BriansR’s below :p
Sadly related.
I agree that Greenwood Heights/Sunset Park is really limited on the garbage cans – perhaps if we all request some we’d see more?
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/contact/requests_litter.shtml
Brian,
I think it’s great that you’re able to accommodate and plan accordingly, but not everyone has that luxury. Different variables go into play like a person’s work schedule, residents on the block and the amount of car ownership per household.
For instance, on my block, we have an average of 3 cars per household and lots of construction for half a mile on 5th avenue. Very limited parking to begin with, and for the past year a half, it’s downright terrible.
Maybe if we had trash bins in Sunset Park (including it’s neglected red-headed step-sister Greenwood Heights) the residents themselves would be more inclined to use them. Many a time have I walked from Bay ridge to Sunset, or conversely from Park Slope to Sunset, only to find that trash bins on street corners end on the periphery of Sunset Park!
It’s downright disgraceful if you ask me! The residents of Sunset Park have the potential to be as “neat” as those in Ridge or Slope, but they need to be given a proper chance to first.
@BrianR – I travel for work I leave Mondays and come back Thursday. Luckily my girlfriend takes care of the car. It would suck for a family if someone had to travel and make arrangements for it. Regardless, I agree with you that there is liter. But I think if we had more bins (bigger ones too), it would reduce littering. Ive gone stretches in SP without seeing a bin! You see in Slope the larger bins by the busier areas, e.g., 9th and 7th.
I live on 47th Street. In my opinion, litter is one of the biggest quality of life issues in SP. I don’t doubt that there are other, political, issues contributing to Sanitation’s cleaning schedule. However, until people stop throwing their shit all over the place, SP needs to be cleaned 4 times a week.
BTW – I have a car. I plan accordingly and only move it twice a week.
Yeap, the coincidentally missed the neighborhoods with lower income levels… and most minorities 🙂 (oh no I hope this doesnt start into something else)
I thought the Dept of Sanitation was systematically moving around the borough and changing almost all 4x cleaning to 2x cleaning….
I could be wrong, but they did it in Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, DUMBO, (now) in Fort Greene, etc etc etc.
We have the same 4X/week situation in PLG. My understanding (which I HOPE is wrong) is that a change in number of days has to be done on a Community Planning District-wide basis and because PLG shares a District with CHS and Wingate, which need more frequent street cleaning, we’re out of luck. Perhaps your neighborhood has a similar problem.