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Sanitation Department Carts Away Snow
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 2, 2011
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Tomorrow, the Department of Sanitation will pick up garbage that's been piling over the past post-blizzard week. And yesterday, we spotted crews trying to break down snowbanks protecting the garbage mountains on the Upper West Side: There was a front-loader removing snow and then dumping it into a private truck, plus there was a Sanitation SUV parked on the corner.
Have your snow banks been cleared? (A report yesterday said that Brooklyn and Queens were plowed after Manhattan.) Or do you think the San Department is just waiting for the big melt?
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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