The snow is shrinking, but what it\u2019s uncovering is hard to miss.<\/p>\n
As temperatures climb into the 40s, melting piles are revealing weeks of trash pressed into the sidewalks.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Over the last several weeks, the Department of Sanitation said the city has melted 400 million pounds of snow across the city
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According to the department, 2,500 sanitation workers on every successive 24-hour shift with no days off for about two weeks
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With alternate side parking set to resume Thursday, vehicles will have to make way for street sweepers<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople seem to litter more on top of the snow,\u201d Troy Hahn, an East Village resident, said.<\/p>\n
Those mounds built up during January\u2019s storm when sanitation crews were stretched thin, clearing streets before they could circle back for clean-up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe same sanitation workers who clear the snow are the people who pick up the trash,\u201d Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Sanitation Joshua Goodman said.<\/p>\n
Goodman called the response all-hands, one that puts plows first.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had 2,500 sanitation workers on every successive 24-hour shift. No days off for about two weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Because it\u2019s the same workforce doing both jobs, trash collection lagged. But Goodman said that the backlog is now gone, as sanitation supervisors are now refocusing on enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cSanitation supervisors\u00a0have written about 5,500 summonses for dirty conditions, dirty sidewalks, failure to clean 18 inches into the street this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With alternate side parking set to resume Thursday, vehicles will have to make way for street sweepers. They made appearances for the first time in weeks on Monday, clearing \u201cNo Parking\u201d and \u201cNo Standing\u201d zones.<\/p>\n
Some quality-of-life violations, though, remain hard to police.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s dog poop everywhere,\u201d Stuy-Town resident Mary Jane Hanrahan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn order to write a summons for failure to clean up after a dog, we have to catch somebody in the act, and obviously that\u2019s very challenging,\u201d Goodman said.<\/p>\n
Still, the message from the city is blunt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of those things where everybody knows it\u2019s wrong. Nobody [knows] they don\u2019t have to clean up after their dog. It\u2019s completely unacceptable,\u201d Goodman said.<\/p>\n
And for residents navigating what\u2019s left behind, progress matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city does its job for the most part. They keep the [streets] clean,\u201d East Village resident Jessica Rico said.<\/p>\n
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