Open Thread Wednesday

By on February 14, 2024 8:49 am in Brooklyn Heights

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  • Cranberry Beret

    No Valentine’s hearts from DSNY to Bk Hts

    Didn’t pick up trash put out Sunday nite (24+ hours before snow), didn’t pick up trash put out last night (12+ hours after snow), didn’t bother salting any of our streets before or during yesterday’s snow

  • Nomcebo Manzini

    I sure hope our City Councilman or someone in his office is reading this. We are very nearly “blessed” with a capable one, and “Sanitation” – by all accounts – is headed by someone as competent as the Mayor is lacking, so I think it’s pretty low-hanging fruit. Yes, communications depends on people giving a darn and making use of social media or SMS or similar to “get the word out,” but just as the DOE had a giant fail because they’re rudderless, someone at DSNY needs to acknowledge – at least behind the scenes – that this type of “glitch” is unacceptable.

    They made a big deal recently about communicating with building supts and the like so that garbage doesn’t sit outside of 24 hours+. Has that system already sprung a leak?

  • MaggieO

    Trash pickup this past Monday was suspended due to Lincoln’s Birthday so folks who put out their trash Sunday night missed that message. Typically when Monday pickup is cancelled the pickups are then pushed onto Tuesday meaning the crews have to pickup all Monday trash AND Tuesday trash on Tuesday. With the timing of the snowstorm on Tuesday they then cancelled Tuesday pickup, leaving a massive amount of trash that should have been picked up Wednesday. I’m not saying that the current situation is ok, just that I do kinda understand why it happened. Also, it certainly isn’t a Bk Hts problem, it’s a citywide problem.

  • A Neighbor

    Important to check Press Releases on the DSNY site. There was no pick-up Monday due to Lincoln’s birthday – and there is no pick-up next Monday for Presidents’ Day. No excuse, however for garbage and recycling sitting on the curb three days later, especially then the ‘snowstorm’ did not require plowing.

  • Cranberry Beret

    Good point about the holiday this week.

    However, I’d also add that DSNY has muddled things by having their own unique holiday list AND recently scheduling pick-ups on *some* of those holidays. Last year they DID collect on Labor Day for example, even though it’s still listed as a DSNY holiday.

    TBH we shouldn’t need a flowchart to determine if a particular day is one of the subsets of DSNY holidays where collection is scheduled.

  • Jorale-man

    Yes, it was annoying to see the trash bags out on sidewalks as early as Sunday night given the holiday. The 2 inches of snow also shouldn’t have thrown things off so badly. But more generally, this should point to the need to get containerized trash going as soon as possible – it really looks bad out there.

  • Andrew Porter

    I went to a convention in Boston last weekend and although everyone was masked, came back and by Tuesday was sick as a dog. Now mostly recovered so here, belatedly, is a photo of BH from the Old Days:

    The Cranberry Street side of the Plymouth Church in a 1940 tax photo. The windows appear to be covered in plywood:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/11aa8fdbfa9cc3e6c820ca471c9341829b762114e6c459df57f2d7f167fc9e18.png

  • Who Will Buy The Bossert?

    Anyone planning on attending the Bossert Hotel auction on Tuesday 2/20?

    Mary Frost will you be covering this?

    Virtual Auction via Zoom can be accessed here at 2:15 p.m:
    https://hotelbossertucc.hodgeswardelliott.com/

    In person:
    NY Supreme Courthouse Portico,
    60 Centre Street, New York, NY

  • cool

    Fascinating story of Heights resident Elizabeth Gloucester –
    The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/elizabeth-gloucester-black-history.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

  • Andrew Porter

    Every time I pass the former site of her building, at the corner of Remsen and Clinton, I think of the woman:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/50aaecdeca8ee97e48ea380437a1cfc67bb41925f06d2f7d3702f50d0d61fe57.jpg