{"id":120971,"date":"2026-02-03T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:16","slug":"garbage-piles-up-on-nyc-streets-along-with-snow-as-storm-vexes-sanitation-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120971\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage piles up on NYC streets along with snow as storm vexes Sanitation Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mounds of garbage have piled up on NYC streets as the city struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/30\/when-will-cold-snap-end-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:freezing temperatures;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">freezing temperatures<\/a> and piles of ever-more-disgusting snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Mamdani said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/weather\/weather-stories\/live-updates-snow-forecast-today-winter-storm\/6449084\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:garbage collection is running 24 hours behind schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">garbage collection is running 24 hours behind schedule<\/a>, despite 2,500 sanitation workers on 12-hour shifts and 1,500 additional workers from across different city agencies who are working to clear bus stops, sidewalks and crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhat I\u2019m thankful to see is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/dsny\/forms\/collection-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the pace of cleanup is increasing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the pace of cleanup is increasing<\/a>, and I am hopeful that that continues to be the case across the five boroughs,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Department of Sanitation has a \u201cSnow Alert,\u201d posted to its site: \u201cCollection is ongoing, but delays are possible due to the winter storm,\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mayor added that, due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/02\/nyregion\/nyc-winter-cold.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the persistent cold;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the persistent cold<\/a>, extra work has fallen to city workers who can usually rely on slightly warmer temperatures melting snow and aiding their efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhat that has meant is that the entirety of the city\u2019s response is up to the city workers themselves, and what they\u2019ve been doing is an incredible job,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michelle Walker, a 57-year-old health care worker from Gowanus, was less than pleased with the trash mountain piling up on the Brooklyn streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFor people coming home from work, it\u2019s discouraging,\u201d she said. \u201cAlready with this new administration, our streets are not clean. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But some New Yorkers wanted to cut the city some slack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMy recycling hasn\u2019t been picked up either,\u201c said John Gill, 51, an IT worker from Windsor Terrace, also in Brooklyn. \u201cI understand they have a hard job so, for me it\u2019s no big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cGoing forward, like next week \u2013 talk to me then,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mounds of garbage have piled up on NYC streets as the city struggles with freezing temperatures and piles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53064,53062,20722,8878,53065,9,56,63,65,64,53063,49301],"class_list":["post-120971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn-streets","tag-city-workers","tag-freezing-temperatures","tag-garbage-collection","tag-michelle-walker","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-streets","tag-sanitation-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}