"Say goodbye to garbage mountains and hello to the "Empire Bins." Starting this fall, hundreds of parking spaces in Brooklyn's Community Board 2-covering Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights and more-will be swapped out for massive on-street trash containers. The city says the move will mean cleaner sidewalks, fewer rats and less of that signature eau de New York."
"The idea is simple: Instead of leaving black bags piled on the sidewalk like a buffet for rodents, building supers will toss garbage into locked bins that can only be opened with special keys. Custom $500,000 garbage trucks will then swing by and scoop them up. If this sounds familiar, it's because the pilot already exists uptown. About 1,100 containers were dropped across Harlem over the past two years and officials say rat sightings have since plummeted."
The city will replace hundreds of on-street parking spaces across Brooklyn's Community Board 2 with large locked trash containers called 'Empire Bins' starting this fall. Building supers will deposit garbage into bins that open only with special keys, after which specially equipped $500,000 trucks will empty them. About 1,100 containers were installed in Harlem over two years, with reported declines in rat sightings. Buildings with more than 30 units must use the containers; landlords with 10–30 units may request curbside containers or use smaller wheeled bins. The program will displace a small percentage of parking spaces.
Read at Time Out New York
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