On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they’d been chewed through by rats the night before.
Huh, today I learned that NYC just leave their trash outside to be picked up, instead of in containers.
Yeah there’s literally just piles of garbage lining all the streets. Then they call it the greatest city on earth 🙄
It’s an infamous part of city life, at least in Manhattan!
They actually had Oscar the grouch style trash containers up until the sanitation strike of 1968. For whatever reason they just never came back after the strike ended.
I always felt so bad for the sanitation workers who had to spend all day picking up heavy bags of trash and throwing them in the back of the truck.
It’s gotta be hard work.
