Sanitation

“We want to melt because it's not going to go away anywhere anytime soon," acting Sanitation Commissioner Javier Lojan declared on Wednesday.

Crosswalks remain covered in snow, even as the city issues hundreds of violations to private property owners.

Mayor Eric Adams is leaving behind a cleaner city, as well as a fight over whether to put garbage containers in parking spaces.

Crews can clean the insides of subway cars on the L line, but the exteriors are getting filthier by the day.

The sanitation department is working to ban trash bag mountains from sidewalks. Advocates argue recycling should be included.

The city's notoriously filthy streets are giving rise to a new generation of volunteer groups that want to make neighborhoods across the city a little cleaner.

The legislation will require the use of on-street trash bins in large apartment buildings by 2032.

For most of the year, the city's mechanical brooms eat regular street trash. But during the fall, leaves occupy much of the street sweepers’ diet.

Mayor Eric Adams announced a $146 million investment into a neighborhood that's long been a symbol of the city's poor public infrastructure.

The sanitation department is rolling out the trash containers in parking spaces throughout Community Board 2 in Brooklyn.