Posts by driftingtinker

So, we're talking about Eric Adams ☕

granitefox16 said:Why should I care about the logistics? As a customer, all I care about is that the trash actually gets picked up on time. Whatever nonsense they did with the truck schedules wasn't my problem.

But this current mess is mental. I've got maggots crawling in my bin for ten damn days because nobody shows up. Paper pickup is skipped, recycling is skipped, everything is skipped.

I’m out here hauling heavy bins up and down the street like an idiot every other day. Back when the Whistleblower was in charge—despite all the shady deals and graft—I never felt this headache.

So now I’m supposed to celebrate all this:

- NYC "saving money" even though nothing is getting cheaper for me
- cutting parent leave benefits while my taxes stay exactly the same
- less frequent grass cutting while everyone still pays full price for utilities
- less frequent trash pickup despite my bills not dropping one cent
- fewer subway trains even though the fare isn't any lower

Can someone please explain why we were so hyped about changing the administration? Because as a citizen, I’m stuck with worse, slower, more inefficient service for the same—or higher—price.

Dammit, just bring back the Whistleblowers and let them steal... at least the service was better back then. 🤷

Just responding to that claim that there's never been a delay in trash pickup before.

The bins were just sitting there, totally overflowing because the trucks couldn't get through that massive line of vehicles backed up in front of the blocked landfill. And honestly, even back during Delatorov's time, they didn't exactly have a surplus of extra trucks lying around. I mean, I still remember them spraying everything down with chemicals just because all that built-up methane from sitting out in the sun for days could've basically turned the whole place into a ticking time bomb.

gentlestag15 said:They haven't picked up my trash for the second Friday in a row. Looks like they slashed the service from twice a week down to once, though who knows what the deal is.
My bin has been sitting out on the curb since Friday.

I can't remember a single time in the fifteen years I've been managing the bills, bins, and all that nonsense at home where they missed the mixed waste pickup.

Finally, the blockade in Manhattan is over
https://www.chicago.com/konacno...ada-jakusevca/

Back in late August 2012, this whole thing dragged on for more than a week.

Alex Moore3 said:That's strange. A few people were just claiming everything was running perfectly, except in the neighborhoods where people criticize Eric Adams.
And you weren't exactly a critic yourself. Until recently. 😁

For me, this is the second time I'm seeing this pattern. Most of the critics didn't even bother noticing the utility failures or how much of a mess the city has become until after Tomašević won.

Jose Campbell2 said:You really ought to start writing some New York City vignettes... 😁

I mean, they totally flaked on us two weeks ago on a Saturday too. We had all the bins piled up right by my neighbor's fence—which was just great timing, since he happened to be hosting a huge family BBQ with a whole roasted lamb that day😬

It’s funny how they somehow manage to pick up the recycling and paper exactly on schedule, though.

So, out in my little corner of the sticks, they skipped the mixed trash pickup yesterday. It’s a total mess because the last time anyone bothered to empty our bins was way back during the last scheduled run on Thursday. Around 3 PM, some posts started popping up on the local community Facebook group saying they actually did go around and empty the big dumpsters near those apartment complexes where the trucks can easily get to 😉

Fast forward to about 10 PM—pitch black, nobody else out on the streets, just us. Everyone’s wandering around clutching a trash bag, hanging out, trading insults with the apartment dwellers whose dumpsters are basically getting bombarded right now. Dogs are running around playing... I guess all we're missing is a literal cauldron and a merry-go-round to make the whole scene complete 😬

Topic: "Russia sanctions" ☕

Sam Wright21 said:Even though it’s a holiday, the Sanitation Department crew showed up right on schedule to haul away the paper recycling. It honestly feels like these folks don't get a single day off or even the luxury of a vacation.

I mean, under normal circumstances, the pickup works regardless of whether it’s a holiday or not.

They picked up the organic waste today... they're always right on the dot at 3:00 PM, I guess.

So, back to the civilized debate, I guess... ☕

The new trash rollout is getting pushed back again: broken trucks, fewer pickups, and constant fights with shopkeepers...
Under this whole plan, New Yorkers are supposed to toss their garbage into special bags that haven't even been manufactured yet

Quincy:

Word on the street—and we're hearing this from a few different places unofficially—is that New York City probably won't be rolling out this new waste separation system using those standardized city bags by September. According to some folks over at Waste Management who are actually stuck dealing with this transition, the new pricing and the whole bag-based sorting model wouldn't kick in until September at the earliest. Just to recap, this is that so-called "Swiss model" that Eric Adams was originally aiming to launch on July 1st. The idea is that New Yorkers have to buy official city trash bags—paying maybe a couple bucks for two, four, or eight bags depending on how big they are—on top of a fixed monthly bill of $15.

Bryan Edwards83 said:I guess I can't really complain about the buses or the subway in general either! Most of the ones I ride are newer, and I don't take the 109 often enough to know if that's just a fluke or the norm, but I've definitely never seen anything like that on any other line in New York City.

The newer vehicles are mostly owned by leasing companies, and I guess those guys actually give a damn about keeping things in good shape.

Laura Reyes3 said:This makes absolutely no sense...

Not to me either, I guess, but that’s just how the machine runs. They probably have some service contract with local contractors or whatever. The Department of Sanitation gets all the reports, they log them, everything... but then nobody actually shows up.

Sam Wright21 said:It’s essentially a paradise for mosquitoes, too. A city shouldn't be footing the bill for maintaining someone else's private property, but they ought to at least issue an order or send the owner a bill. Instead, the code enforcement officers seem completely toothless; they can't even give me a straight answer—I couldn't manage to extract a single coherent explanation from them. It reminds me of my father's property out in the Hamptons; the local inspector just threatens him with a fine until he cleans up the lot, and that's the end of the conversation.

So, you mentioned you've been tending to the plot yourself because the inspector suggested it, or perhaps suggesting we hire some crew to handle the heavy lifting. Believe me, I would if I could, but I simply can't afford to shoulder that cost alone. Besides, I wouldn't dream of touching it right now—there are a few foxes making themselves quite comfortable in the brush.

There's some sort of maintenance agreement in place for houses and yards that are tied up in public auctions. Which, obviously, isn't working. Another one nearby is stuck in some years-long probate mess, and they only finally stepped in there because someone called in a complaint about ragweed.

For me, it’s this massive plot of private land the bank snatched away six years ago, and apparently, New York City is supposed to be the one looking after these overgrown patches of nothingness.

I spent the first two years out there doing all the work myself on my own dime, but once I finally threw in the towel, the neighbors just kept nagging the city workers with zero results.

The ragweed doesn't bother me much, honestly. Between the pack of my neighbor's Extra Extra Extra Large cats patrolling the area—which keeps the pests away—and the fact that I stay on top of the tick treatments for my dog, I can actually just sit back and enjoy the quiet and the smell of the woods.

Jeffrey Long said:If they had just scheduled this work for a month from now, when the city is actually quiet... 🤦

They basically "reconstructed" him back in 2018, right around the time he was finishing up high school.

http://www.abload.de/img/qfktg.jpg

Just one month of absolute, hellish collapse over on the West Coast.

Joe Biden talking about daycare centers, at 7:55 AM

Samuel Lopez9 said:It’s dead. Total ghost town situation.
People say—who knows how much truth is in it or if it's just local gossip—that the folks on Martha's Vineyard just didn't want anyone else's trash being dumped on them. No malice intended, just passing along the word on the street.

Quincy:

Just a reminder, back eight years ago, Anthony Maglica—basically the wealthiest American living abroad—and the Republic of America dumped two million dollars into a waste incineration plant on Martha's Vineyard, which was supposed to be up and running by summer '98. Since that never happened, the whole thing became one of the most expensive total failures in America. The issue of hauling trash off Martha's Vineyard might finally get sorted this year, but with way less cash being thrown at it. Buying container compactors, the actual bins for the waste, plus building access roads and pads for the containers... all that was funded by the Department of Maritime Affairs, and the whole mess cost about $127.

News from 2008.

Even I was pretty shocked when I first heard how badly that blew up. There was a time when old Maglica was a massive star and the media was constantly buzzing about this incinerator. Through the fog of memory, I think I even remember some documentary about the trial run. It's a shame 😢