{"id":262142,"date":"2026-06-10T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:53:07","slug":"chance-to-comment-on-plan-to-bring-on-street-empire-trash-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262142\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance to comment on plan to bring on-street Empire trash bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 A HEARING ON a plan to expand the Department of Sanitation\u2019s on-street container pilot program to include Brooklyn\u2019s Community District 2 will take place online on Wednesday, June 17, from 9:30 \u2013 11 a.m. The pilot program would require large and medium buildings in District 2 to place their trash out in stationary, high-capacity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dsny\/collection\/containerization\/m9-bins.page#empire-bins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Empire Bins<\/a> on the street, serviced by new New York Department of Sanitation side-loading trucks.<\/p>\n<p>District 2 includes Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and nearby neighborhoods. The rule change would extend containerization requirements for both large residential buildings that contain 31 or more residential dwelling units, and medium residential buildings that contain 10 to 30 residential dwelling units.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on the proposed expansion of the pilot program may be made at the hearing, by mail and via email. Visit the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.cityofnewyork.us\/rule\/relating-to-containerization-requirements-for-buildings-containing-10-or-more-dwelling-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">rules website<\/a> for information on attending the hearing or mailing in comments. The deadline to comment is June 17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 A HEARING ON a plan to expand the Department of Sanitation\u2019s on-street container pilot program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,9,24,13268,63],"class_list":["post-262142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-department-of-sanitation-dsny","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262142","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=262142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}