Mayor Mamdani has yet to commit funding to the city’s nascent trash containerization program, which threatens to halt the ...

New sanitation department rules could mean big fines for nonprofit groups that clean up numerous New York City blocks, city councilmembers write in a new letter. Every day, workers for business ...

In the aftermath of this election, it is more important than ever to take care of ourselves, our city, our state, country, and planet, and one relatively easy way to start is by taking out the garbage ...

It was two years ago. Morningside Heights resident Carl Mahaney was walking with his kid to the first day of school, when they came across heaps of trash bags lying on a sidewalk. “The rats would come ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Business Improvement Districts are preparing for New York City’s new trash containerization rules, but without increasing costs to their members, according to local ...

Community Board 9 will soon become the first district in the city to fully containerize its trash, the New York City Department of Sanitation announced on Nov. 19. The announcement follows the success ...

The New York City Council committee on sanitation and solid waste management passed a vote 7-3 in favor of expanding a West Harlem containerization pilot program to the rest of the city at a hearing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC ‘rat czar’ scurries away after quiet-as-a-mouse tenure that was largely overtaken by trash New York City’s so-called rat czar ...