City Allocates Funds to Clean up Astoria

City Councilman Costa Constantinides has pushed to have the City set aside funds to pay for additional clean up teams in Astoria. The Doe Fund, which helps homeless people and former prison inmates to attain permanent self-sufficiency, is set to receive $70,000 for street cleaning services along Astoria’s commercial streets. According to the Astoria Post, Doe Fund workers will sweep and clean 30th Avenue from Athens Square Park to Steinway Street, Broadway from 31st Street to Steinway Street, and 31st Street from Ditmars Boulevard to 23rd Avenue. Additional money will pay for more garbage cans and to paint murals over graffiti-covered walls. The program is funded until July of 2015.