No reason to get frustrated by that pile o' trash outside your door. Garbage collection was supposed to resume yesterday and it did. But it restarted for everybody and there is about 50,000 tons of garbage to collect, so patience please—this is going to take a few days.
At a news conference yesterday John Doherty, commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, explained that "during the course of the week, as we make our rounds, some people will get two pick-ups where they normally receive three, and some other people may get either one or two pick-ups where they receive twice-a-week collection."
Still, the mounds piling up could be worse. “It’s not as bad as I expected,” one sanitation worker told the Times while surveying the Upper East Side. “I thought it would be twice as bad.”
And if you were worried that officials are taking this perfectly understandable delay in trash removal lying down...we wonder what city you've been living in? Brooklyn councilmen Letitia James is already up in arms over the fact that trucks are doing limited pick-up while the last of the snow is dealt with. "Because the snow has melted thanks to Mother Nature," she argued, "we should actually be doing full sanitation pick-up because the garbage here in central Brooklyn is mounting and we have rodent problems and raccoon problems."
