24 January 2009, 4:04 pm
by:Anthony J Trimboli- Howard Beach, New York- What a different type of recognition by NYC Sanitation the block of 98 St between 163 and 164 Avenues got today. In New York City, apparently, on many occasions, NYC Sanitation gets a bad rap. They are noted as being slovenly and spoiled and even like people as mentioned before as seen on NYC.gov where they like to make money out of fines.
Well, the last rude conversation with a rude, obnoxious NYC Sanitation worker ended today at 3 PM when she got critical of me for cleaning the man's ice at 98=16 163 Avenue and he was really happy that that was alerted to him. After my mom was complaining that the Recyclables was collected, there was no need for any lip further from Manhattan and NYC Sanitation collections telling people that they should mind their own houses and not help neighbors where mother nature was at fault. It ended with a screaming fit with this woman at NYC Sanitation collections in Manhattan who has been noted as being "nasty" and "bossy" on numerous occasions. She works in NYC Sanitation Collections also. It ended there.
Living near the NYC Sanitation post for Howard Beach located in Richmond Hill, New York on 130 Street and the Belt Parkway, there was a visit made there. Some nice people were spoken to and they did not criticize me for cleaning or ask to clean a neighbor's sidewalk because mother nature froze the ice. That was her view in Manhattan and NYC Sanitation at Collections. Some nice people were spoken to and the spoiled, slovenly, ticket hungry side that supposedly is of NYC Sanitation was just not seen this afternoon after speaking about how my mom was ignored by NYC Sanitation and the "bossy" and "arrogant" woman at NYC Sanitation Collections Division in Manhattan.
The NYC Sanitation trucks came down the street of 98 Street like two bombers as one would say, some young guys were driving the trucks and I heard my talk mentioned. It was like they heard me speak and sent two bombers down the street to recover the left recyclables that were left in the neighbors' front. Again, the woman at NYC Sanitation in Manhattan at Collections does not want people to get involved with neighbors and wants to complain about the local unit only involving your own address. There was a slight correct point there, but Howard Beach can be better than that. I had no problem with asking the neighbor to clean the ice that melted because of mother nature.
Shockingly good service by NYC Sanitation and a NYC agency that is often criticized as being lazy and slovenly and bossy and ticket hungry. Maybe the woman and the office in Manhattan is--I do not know. QUEENS CAN HAVE NICER RESIDENTS AND SO CAN BROOKLYN. They just heard me talk at the local NYC Sanitation depot there on Belt Parkway and 130 Street and just released them from the depot like two planes coming down the street with an inspector going around the corner to check to see that our block was picked up.
New York City Sanitation may leave an entire block(yes, this does include your neighbors and I am glad I could mention them to the local depot over here unlike she did not want this in Manhattan)without service, like the entire bunch of bags on the block left there, everybody if they spot a violation in the bag of one neighbor. It has to be a costly violation and people again say that all NYC Sanitation does today is just ticket the neighbor (actually they may after this woman in Manhattan who I spoke to at Collections who is bossy and arrogant)and keep on going picking up the trash of the OTHERS on the block who may and should have no relation to you. But, some people still believe that NYC Sanitation sometimes is strict enough that if they see a violation in one bag of recyclables, they will offer no ticket, but leave the entire block without service like the block today.
If my local NYC Sanitation depot did this today for me and my talk with them, I think they are great and very good to do so. I could not believe how the service was done today here in QUEENS(again, I will say to you again Queens and Brooklyn have nice people inside of them)with them coming out for my mom and just cleaning up the block because I spoke to the local depot personally and 311 says you can if you have a number, which they gave to me, and the block and its recyclables were picked up drastically and quickly and strongly. A young Sanitation man who picked up my recyclables did mention the note and the talk I gave to them, so that may have been it.
In the case of my block, I believe the old supposedly old NYC Sanitation philosophy where a violation is spotted in one of the bags on the block is seen and the entire block is refused service may have happened. Everybody else(ON OTHER BLOCKS--NOT US STRANGERS LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS ONE BLOCK)got their recyclables picked up besides my block, which means there may have been a suspicion of a violation in one of the recyclable bags. Also, they handled this smoothly, if you speak to the rough woman at NYC Sanitation collections who is also bossy, she will question you fully on the phone about if there was a violation and NOW you can get a neighbor involved because you have the complaint against the neighbor. Again, I suspect there may have been a violation spotted by regular NYC Sanitation workers on my block and that is why the entire block was refused the recyclables. What a different showing today, but this is Queens, and the people are friendlier out here supposedly.
Anthony age 29 Writer
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