Gentile secures $200,000 for cleaner streets
Funds to be spent on litter basket pickups, street sweepers
The shopping strips in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst are going to be a lot cleaner now that the city is pumping in nearly $200,000 in additional funding for sanitation services, according to Councilmember Vincent Gentile.
Gentile announced on Tuesday that he had secured the necessary funds to increase the number of days that Department of Sanitation (DOS) workers empty litter baskets on Third, 13th and 18th Avenues from three days a week to four days a week.
The litter basket pickups will take place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. And the DOS workers will be removing the trash from the baskets twice a day on those days, Gentile said.