Contract to ship trash to out-of-town incinerators latest hurdle for opponents of reopening East 91st Street transfer station
Department of Sanitation
A brief history of New York City’s winter-weather wars, as told by the Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence
Feds draw on $95 million contract to haul 1.8 million tons of trash out of town
Six days after the storm, aid begins to trick in from Sikh temples, van lines and kids running up and down high-rises
Solar-powered compactors save other cities money and keep rats at bay, but in New York they remain few and far between
What does a no-snow winter mean for the city budget? This year New York City is on pace for its second-mildest winter ever, according to the National Weather Service. A mere seven inches of snow have fallen on Central Park this season. High temperatures across the region have already savaged business that depend on snow, from ski […]
