Colton, Treyger lead litter sweep of 86th Street in Bensonhurst
With help from an army of young volunteers from local high schools, two of Bensonhurst’s elected officials conducted a thorough cleanup of one of the neighborhood’s busiest commercial strips on Saturday morning.
Assemblyman Bill Colton (D-Gravesend-Bensonhurst) and Councilman Mark Treyger (D-Coney Island-Gravesend-Bensonhurst) held a “Speak-Up & Clean-Up” event to get rid of litter on 86th Street and surrounding areas.
Dozens of volunteers, equipped with brooms, shovels, plastic bags and gloves helped the lawmakers sweep up papers, cigarette butts, coffee cups, fast food wrappers and other litter clogging the sidewalks. The volunteers then dumped the trash in the plastic bags for collection by the Department of Sanitation. The agency donated the cleanup supplies.
Colton first started holding “Speak-Up & Clean-Up” litter sweeps in 2011 and the periodic cleanups, which the assemblyman holds a couple of times a year, have become tremendously popular with neighborhood residents and business owners.