Deputy Commissioner, Public Affairs & Customer Experience
@NYCSanitation
(personal account obvs). Huge fan of good government + some other stuff: 🌹📻🥑🏖️🚲🐕
@AMLazear
@AliceAvizandum
@mattdpearce
It has been part of the logo since 1929. As you can imagine, a municipal sanitation force had a large role in stopping the City's then-frequent cholera outbreaks. The Department is even headquartered in the old City Health building, atop what used to be Five Points.
the hot dog car sketch gets all the attention as the most politically relevant but every time someone talks about respect for norms i think of the guy who doesn't want to share his nachos and tries to get the waiter to tell his date that she's not allowed to have any more
What should a history of the last five years be called? I'm torn between "Many People Are Saying" and "We're All Trying to Find the Guy That Did This."
not to "get political" but the FDNY repeatedly begged the Giuliani administration for funding for new radios that he denied. we will never know if the relatively inexpensive equipment they asked for could have saved hundreds of lives.
Remember my firefighters and police officers and all first responders who gave their lives to save others on 9/11/01. Today thank God for them and pray for them and their families.
obviously this is a joke but it actually is something government could fix - the reason recipe blogs do this is to maximize space for digital ad revenue, which is an unregulated industry in serious need of reform
@Boringstein
my dark-horse pick: cristin milioti as the jezebel-type writer in hiding; just about the most self-aware the show ever got about its generational politics, and i die laughing every single time at her self-righteous and defensive delivery of "i'm a *very* sexy baby"
Press who have attended
@NYCSanitation
events at our salt sheds know you're not allowed to stand on the salt. You can fall in and literally die. It's extremely dangerous and not funny.
every candidate debate should include the question, "was John Brown insane, or was he the only sane American in an insane time, the only one with the clarity of vision to see that the great evil of slavery must be ended at all costs, and that the slavers would never go quietly?"
Hundreds of
@NYCSchools
will continue to serve as sites where any New Yorker in need can pick up 3 meals/day Monday-Friday, no sign-up or questions asked. You can find the closest one at
NEWS: NYC's public schools will remain closed through the end of the academic year in June.
It's a necessary yet disastrous scenario for the city's most vulnerable children in particular: 3+ months of regular schooling gone.
went into a bagel shop that had opened 90 seconds earlier, there's three people in front of me, and i get stuck for 10 minutes because they're all getting their bagels toasted. who toasts a bagel at 7am?? it literally JUST came out of the oven
@pattymo
every republican official who retweets praise from Diamond and Silk should have to prove that they know which one is Diamond and which one is Silk
if you think that criticizing John Kasich, who busts unions and supports a near-total ban on abortions, is "turning against our allies," i really don't know what to tell you
Really interesting conversation, but do NOT believe the hype about pizza boxes not being recyclable! In NYC we can take them even if they have a little grease on them.
interesting. i seem to recall some people arguing that a pause in congestion pricing would remove it as a talking point for Republican candidates. But i guess that didn't turn out to be correct, as a Republican candidate is now spending $5M campaigning on it. Interesting
"living rent-free in your head" probably the worst new addition to online political discourse in the last 5 years. oh yeah, you caught me, i sometimes think about people and things i don't like, and how to stop bad policy from taking effect. busted, guilty as charged.
I've been called many, many things by the
@nypost
over the years, but never "cringe" before. I'll be as cringey as it takes to get the streets clean - it's what New Yorkers expect and deserve and I'm not going to apologize for that.
auto insurers should track how often you honk your horn. Car horns are for emergencies and if you are honking a lot, you are clearly in life or death situations frequently and your rate should reflect that.
you know, people say this (it's a paraphrase of a quote attributed to LaGuardia) but it really isn't true. should the trash be containerized? what should the collection workers' union contract be like? how, where, and how much do we recycle? of course there's ideology in it
"There’s no ideological way to pick up the trash"
@AndrewYang
says when asked by
@BrianLehrer
if he's left, right, progressive or moderate. Yang says New Yorkers just want their city to work better, they don't care so much what political box you put yourself in.
TIP FOR ANYONE NEW TO NYC: when someone asks if you "want to split a cab," they're asking if you'd like to share a crisp, refreshing head of napa cabbage, which is a treat we all enjoy
@keithellison
@NY31Alcantara
Congressman, you know that she caucuses with the Republicans, keeping them in power in the NY Senate despite a numerical minority?
@tedlieu
@jordansdiamonds
@JeffFlake
We need help, yes. But these are just empty words. He's purposefully running away from the opportunity to actually do something to help.
Every piece you see floating around - plus whatever 15,000 people leave behind - will need to be cleaned by one of 254 Sanitation Workers, plus 56 backpack blowers, 36 mechanical brooms, and 50 hand brooms. They all gave up their holiday to get Times Square clean by morning.
ME: it's weird how people think they have personal relationships with celebrities just because they enjoy or appreciate their art
MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD, MADONNA: you're right Josh
the best thing about marching with the DSNY costume characters is that New Yorkers, the most unflappable people in the world, still get so surprised and excited to see them - including the consummate New Yorker,
@SenSchumer
After the ball drops in Times Square and
@ericadamsfornyc
becomes Mayor tonight, the work will just be beginning, as 250
@NYCSanitation
employees work to clear ~45 tons of confetti & debris. Commissioner Grayson and I (+
@katie_honan
!) will be here all night - more pics to come.
here's full statement i provided exclusively to my dear friends at Streetsblog. really looking forward to learning from this weekend's storm and the
#bikenyc
crew.
This just in from
@NYCSanitation
as it preps for snow: The agency wants
#bikenyc
to tweet about the performance of the new narrow snow plows and brining equipment during their “1st big test." If it goes badly, spox
@jshgdmn
says agency will make "whatever changes may be needed."
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed one week into nationwide protests following the murder of MLK Jr. The federal government coming together to do anything in seven days - especially something that protects communities of color - sounds like a description of another country.
true love is borne of a mutual understanding that both "Power Broker" AND "Death and Life of Great American Cities" are chronicles of the debates of another time (albeit fascinating ones) and that the story of OUR City isn't yet in books, but is written each day in the streets
last week i was on Henry St in Chinatown and heard someone on the phone telling their friend they couldn't find a certain address. i knew the place, so i interjected, gave directions, and went about my day.
just ran into them on the F and they told me the directions were wrong.
at my grandmother's 99th birthday. my mom reminded her that she has to make a wish before blowing out the candles - she says, "my wish is that the cake is good."
except the Oreo wasn't invented, it was SHAMELESSLY RIPPED OFF of the Hydrox Cookie, created at the Sunshine Biscuits factory in Long Island City, Queens four years earlier
that's right folks: Hydrox isn't knock-off Oreo, Oreo is knock-off Hydrox. Queens stay winning.
Today’s Fun NYC Fact: The Oreo was invented here at the Chelsea Market in 1912 (back when it was a factory) by the National Biscuit Company (NABISCO). It was the largest bakery in the world, & a center for the production & sale of cookies for many years until deindustrialization.
In Parkchester this morning, a driver who didn't want to move his Audi for ASP pulled a knife on the Sanitation Worker driving the mechanical broom. Can you imagine the entitlement necessary to think you have a right to stab a fellow New Yorker for trying to clean your street?
#NYC
: Full Alternate Side Parking is in effect. Move your car so our brooms can do their part to keep City streets clean, safe and healthy.
#NewYorksStrongest
"my job is to tell people that they are not alone. they are not alone in their poverty, in their identity, or in their dignity." —
@Ocasio2018
addressing an engaged crowd of 750 at
#AOCxDSALA
When I was in undergrad we had a student movement to divest from coke over their actions in Latin America, until an administrator told us that a decade earlier the university had divested from Pepsi over Myanmar. We approached RC and they weren't interested.
SO much context missing here. only about 10% of the contract was ever paid - we fired the vendor for poor performance after just 3 weeks, and the report itself lauds DSNY for doing a great job of vendor management! we independently verified that NYC only paid for goods received.
The
@nypost
, which loves claiming to stand for hardworking New Yorkers, is now denigrating
@NYCSanitation
staff who worked literally thousands of backbreaking hours in a pandemic to keep our city clean. You think they're expensive,
@empirecenter
? Try living without them.
@Boringstein
this is sort of tangential but once i was in the car with my sweet sainted mother and "sympathy for the devil" was on the radio. at "i shouted out/who killed the kennedys/when after all/it was you & me," she says, "you know, that's true. we all killed them, with our cynicism."
@themanburglar
"I am convinced socialism is the only answer, and I urge all comrades to struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.”
NYC residents produce 20 million lbs of household trash per day. 87% of it leaves the city by rail. one sign of what a big deal the strike would have been is that this specific issue wasn't really on anyone's radar (except here at DSNY where we've been working on plans for weeks)
A tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, President Joe Biden said Thursday, averting a strike.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” he said.
@keithellison
@NY31Alcantara
I know you're not a New Yorker so hoping this is an honest mistake. Please stand with
@NoIDCNY
in their efforts to bring Democratic control.
right-wing Jews who fashion themselves as "free speech absolutists" having a real "never thought leopards would eat MY face" moment this morning (or they would be, if they engaged in any self reflection at all)
Kanye's tweets exemplify why antisemitism is so hard to uproot: it’s a self-affirming conspiracy theory. The antisemite claims that Jews control everything. Then, if they're penalized for their bigotry, they point to that as proof. Heads they win, tails Jews lose.
@ashleyfeinberg
I went to college with this guy. He once posted on FB that on the day Reagan died he "fell to the floor in tears," and his mom commented calling him "my son of honor."
She's also the subject of one of the all-time great Wikipedia sentences, "Loomer is banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Medium, GoFundMe, Venmo, MGM Resorts, PayPal, Lyft, Uber and Uber Eats."
NEWS:
@NYCSanitation
is announcing a massive new curbside composting program, drastically easier to use, half the cost to operate, and far more equitable. Details via
@NYCMayor
:
a few different people have replied to my tweets about last night's
@NYCSanitation
Times Square cleanup with variants of "well they're paid well to do it."
to those people, i would like to say: you are more than welcome to take the civil service exam and join the ranks.
unfortunately there is a large industrial complex that seems to have as its purpose making sure that nearly all NYC Republicans and many NYC Democrats "don't realize" the truth - that our City is safe
There is also a massive partisan difference in the response here. *96% of Republicans* don't realize that New York is, at least statistically, safer than most if not all big cities in the country.
@debdrens
remember during the Sony hack when it turned out she'd been CC'd on a rambling email chain about Gaza, and when she tried to get off it the Sony exec said this? why are people so weird to her
@PhilipPullman
Philip, trans people are subject to violence for their identities. Dozens of murders per year. They just want to be allowed to live as they are. What is complicated about that?
@Fermtech2269
@AliceAvizandum
About 3700 DSNY employees were involved in WTC clean-up. The department is believed to have had 70 deaths from 9/11 cancers, a number that very sadly is likely to grow.