City records reportedly show Manhattan streets were plowed long before parts of Brooklyn and Queens after Sunday’s blizzard.
According to the New York Daily News, Sanitation Department records show that by 4 a.m. Monday, all of Manhattan’s primary streets and 92 percent of its secondary streets had been plowed at least once, except for streets blocked by abandoned vehicles.
The Daily News says by the same time in the southern two-thirds of Brooklyn, just 67 percent of primary streets and 27 percent of secondary streets had seen a plow.
The paper also says in western Queens, all primary streets were plowed by 4 a.m. Tuesday, but just 47 percent of secondary streets had been plowed.
The Sanitation Department points out that there are more streets in Brooklyn and Queens than in Manhattan.
The department has also suggested that there were more abandoned vehicles in Queens and Brooklyn, making it harder to plow in those boroughs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered the Department of Investigation to look into allegations that some sanitation workers staged a slowdown during the blizzard to protest cuts to the department.
The sanitation workers’ union has denied any slowdown took place.
Meanwhile, sanitation officers announced today that they will resume limited garbage collection around the city on Monday.
New Yorkers who normally get their garbage collected on Monday should clear a path to their trash and set it out curbside on Sunday night.
Satiation Commissioner John Doherty also suggests that residents dig out the garbage that was placed outside before the storm and have that ready for pick-up as well.
Garbage crews have already collected trash from city waste baskets.
(Source: NY1)
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It’s standard in all storms that Manhattan gets plowed first; that isn’t problem.
The problem is that they didn’t plow!
Any statement that there wasn’t a job action is false!
I personally saw the plows going down streets with their plows raised just high enough not to plow.
Also on the 1700 block of E. 12th Brooklyn, the police improperly ticketed a car parked in front of an illegal car port while failing to ticket the car in the port that was parked partly on the sidewalk. (What is really unique about this is when you call the 61st Precinct about a car blocking a driveway they never come!) The car with the ticket is still in case someone wants to take a picture.
Even after the city finally claimed that all streets had been plowed, I saw many streets that weren’t and it was not because any cars were blocking. It just never got done.