"Mayor Eric Adams is inducting a new borough into his "trash revolution," a plan slowly rolled out across New York City to containerize garbage and combat the city's longstanding rat crisis. A new batch of neighborhoods was announced on Tuesday to join the growing trash movement in a city long known for leaving its stinky black trash bags out on the sidewalk."
"Brooklyn will join the fight next when the Department of Sanitation installs "Empire Bins," or stationary, on-street trash containers, outside of schools in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this fall. The initiative will expand to other neighborhoods in Brooklyn Community District 2, including Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and Brooklyn Navy Yard, by 2026. The containers will be placed across the district outside schools and high-density residential buildings."
Mayor Eric Adams is introducing on-street stationary trash containers called Empire Bins across Brooklyn Community District 2 to containerize garbage and fight the city's rat problem. Installations will begin outside schools in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this fall and expand to Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and Brooklyn Navy Yard by 2026. Containers will be placed outside schools and high-density residential buildings across the district. City officials cite a West Harlem pilot of over 1,000 bins that coincided with a decline in rat sightings to 311. City leaders report cleaner streets and fewer rat sightings.
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