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September 24, 2007
We Are NOT Blighted! Don't Dump On Us!
not another freakin blog
Tracy Collins showed up late to the blight clean-up day, but managed to take a bunch of photos and post his observations and thoughts:
today was the first (and hopefully the last) day of a volunteer clean up of a notoriously neglected and garbage-strewn stretch of Pacific Street.
by law, a New York City property owner is responsible for cleaning up the sidewalk in front of their property, even if the owner is not responsible for causing the mess as this stretch of Pacific Street runs along the MTA's railyard, the MTA, a New York state entity, and therefore the State of New York, is responsible for keeping this sidewalk clean. unfortunately, sidewalk cleaning rarely, if ever, happens. just on the short walk on Pacific Street from 6th to 5th Avenue today i saw a tire, carpeting, many bottles and cans, broken glass, broken furniture, a mattress, construction scraps, clothes, shoes, fast food wrappers and dog shit. that's when i could actually see what was under the 4-foot tall weeds. i didn't want to look too closely, fearing there's probably much worse.
Posted by lumi at September 24, 2007 8:37 AM