'Good Trade-Off': Rat-Hating Mayor Adams Puts Trash Cans Over Parking As Bins Come to Brooklyn - Streetsblog New York City

"Under Adams, the agency has slowly elevated the Big Apple's trash collection to the level of global cities like Buenos Aires or Madrid, starting in uptown Manhattan's Community Board 9 - first with a pilot of wheeled bins in the street in 2023, followed by the stationary curbside Empire Bins this year for large buildings with 31 or more units."

"The curbside containers, which DSNY officials call Empire Bins, began rolling out in Upper Manhattan earlier this year, and will come to schools in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this fall and the rest of Brooklyn Community Board 2 next year when DSNY acquires more custom-built side-loader collection trucks."

"It's just important for us to realize there's sacrifices we have to make, and these bins don't take up all the parking spaces, and it's a good trade-off,"

"We want cleaner streets, that's one of the top things we hear."

The city is expanding curbside garbage collection using Empire Bins into Brooklyn neighborhoods including Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Boerum Hill and Vinegar Hill. The initiative places large curbside containers in the street rather than requiring bags on sidewalks, trading a handful of parking spaces for cleaner streets. Empire Bins follow earlier pilots of wheeled and stationary bins in Manhattan and apply to buildings with 31+ units; mid-size buildings can choose between sidewalk wheeled bins or curbside Empire Bins, while smaller buildings must use sidewalk wheelie bins. Deployment will proceed as DSNY acquires additional side-loader trucks.

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