STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Want to help your community? Want to earn some extra cash doing so? The Department of Sanitation might have the job for you.<\/p>\n
During a Saturday press conference, Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged able-bodied New Yorkers to sign up for the city\u2019s emergency snow shoveler program<\/a>. <\/p>\n The city will deploy over 1,000 emergency snow shovelers across the five boroughs starting Sunday night using vans and buses to transport the personnel where they\u2019re most needed. <\/p>\n \u201cFor those who want to do more to help their neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n The shoveling jobs, which focus on bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and other public areas, pay $19.14 an hour with the possibility for a raise to $28.71 an hour if working more than 40 hours in a week, according to the Department of Sanitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Eligible applicants must be at least 18 years old, eligible to work in the United States and able to perform heavy physical labor. Applicants must have two small photos of themselves (1-1\/2 inch square), two original forms of ID with copies, and a Social Security card.<\/p>\n Sign-up forms are available online at nyc.gov\/assets\/dsny\/forms\/snow-laborer-registration<\/a> and a Department of Sanitation spokesperson said the agency is hosting open enrollments at its garages around the city Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. <\/p>\n Staten Island is home to three Sanitation garages at 539 Jersey St., Tompkinsville; 2500 Richmond Ave., New Springville; and 1000 West Service Road, Travis, according to the Department of Sanitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n