In a city that’s long been lauded for innovation, our trash-handling practices have been stubbornly antiquated, rising just a step above tossing garbage out a window to have it picked up by passing ...

It turns out one neat trick can tackle the twin, unchecked plagues of New York City: cars and rats. A new Department of Sanitation report out on Wednesday finds that the city could move 89 percent of ...

An uptown Manhattan community board district is set to become the first in the city where trash containerization will be universally mandated under a plan rolled out by Mayor Adams on Thursday. Under ...

According to IVGID, the lowest rate increase is for those who have a bear shed (the brown containers commonly referred to as bear boxes) because those receptacles are the best when it comes to ...

A month after the launch of the contentious pilot program to containerize trash for larger residential buildings in District 7, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Sanitation Commissioner ...

New sanitation department rules could mean big fines for nonprofit groups that clean up numerous New York City blocks, city councilmembers write in a new letter. Every day, workers for business ...

If you’re a driver, the parking real estate is getting smaller and smaller out there. Mayor Zohran Mamdani the other day announced the next wave in the city’s garbage containerization program. Mamdani ...

The Empire Bins strike back. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday trotted out the next phase of the controversial “Empire Bin” program — part of the city’s effort to curb trash bags littering the sidewalks ...

NEW YORK-- A new plan to get piles of trash off the streets of the city and cut down on rats was unveiled Wednesday. But it comes with a price some New Yorkers may not want to pay. The streets of ...