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Checking Bill de Blasio’s Big Promises: THE CITY’s Scorecard on Eight Years of Ambitious Pledges

Dec. 20, 2021, 9:29 p.m.Dec. 20, 2021, 9:33 p.m.

From affordable housing to waste reduction to high-paid jobs to commercial rent control, we look at where the results stand on some of the outgoing mayor’s major plans touted in annual State of the City and Earth Day addresses.

Environment

Trash Transfer Station Slimdown for Overwhelmed Neighborhoods Get Appeals Court OK

Dec. 17, 2020, 9:39 p.m.Dec. 17, 2020, 9:39 p.m.

Judges say City Council had a clean case to sharply reduce tons of garbage processed in the four districts dealing with most of the city’s commercial waste heaps.

Waste Management

Trash-Talking New Yorkers Come Together to Clean Up NYC, Litter-ally

Sept. 28, 2020, 8:24 p.m.Sept. 28, 2020, 8:24 p.m.

Gregory Baggett never thought he’d be on trash duty. But lately, in the COVID-19 era, he’s found himself among New Yorkers rolling up their sleeves — and rolling out the trash bins. A Harlemite since 1980, he knows his block and his neighbors well. So when litter started piling up this summer, he took note, […]

Waste Management

Complaints of Missed Trash Pickups Surge as Garbage Piles Up at Home

Sept. 27, 2020, 8:08 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:41 a.m.

Sanitation officials say they’re keeping pace with mounting waste produced by households in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island and upper Manhattan despite staff cuts.