{"id":38246,"date":"2025-09-20T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=38246"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:00:16","slug":"mayor-adams-acting-dsny-commissioner-lojan-announce-brooklyn-community-district-2-as-next-to-be-fully-containerized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/38246","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams, Acting DSNY Commissioner Lojan announce Brooklyn Community District 2 as next to be fully containerized"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan announced that Brooklyn Community District 2 will be the second neighborhood in the city to have all its trash fully containerized in the Adams administration\u2019s revolutionary Empire Bins, building on the incredible success of the containerization of all trash in West Harlem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DSNY will install stationary, on-street containers \u2014 known as Empire Bins \u2014 at schools in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this fall and extend the popular program to all schools and high-density residential buildings in the community district next year.<\/p>\n

The milestone announcement comes as rats continue to flee New York City: in each of the nine months since low-density residential containerization requirements went into effect last year, rat sightings reported to 311 have declined when compared to the same month the previous year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur \u2018Trash Revolution\u2019 is delivering cleaner streets, a better quality of life, and nine straight months of fewer rat sightings. The rats are losing \u2014 and Brooklyn is next,\u201d said Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the rats crash out, we are ramping up. Today, we are proud to launch the next phase of the \u2018Trash Revolution\u2019: the Battle of Brooklyn. Following the success of Community Board 9 in West Harlem, our administration is bringing Empire Bins to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this fall and expanding citywide in 2026. Every day, we are making our city cleaner, safer, and a better place to raise a family, unless you\u2019re a rat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBin by bin, we are proving the naysayers wrong and showing the world that New York City can have clean streets and sidewalks, just like cities around the world have done for decades,\u201d said DSNY Acting Commissioner Lojan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen a lot of innovation in my 26 years with the Sanitation Department, but containerizing trash using on-street containers is by far the most significant. I am thrilled to be bringing this pilot to a second borough, and I look forward to ongoing evaluation and continued expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expansion announced covers schools and higher-density buildings in Brooklyn Community Board 2. DSNY will assign Empire Bins to schools and all buildings with more than 30 units, and Empire Bins will be accessible to property managers with a key card.<\/p>\n

Buildings with 10 to 30 units will be given an option \u2014 after extensive one-to-one outreach \u2014 to either have an Empire Bin assigned to them or use smaller \u201cwheelie bins\u201d as all properties with one to nine units are already required to do citywide.<\/p>\n

The initial West Harlem pilot utilized roughly 1,100 Empire Bins to store trash from schools and high- and some mid-density residential buildings.<\/p>\n

The Empire Bins are serviced by North America\u2019s first automated side-loading truck, which DSNY was able to have built years ahead of schedule by developers from Torino, Italy, and Hicksville and Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n

These trucks \u2014 which only take two sanitation workers to operate \u2014 have been running on the streets of West Harlem since April.<\/p>\n

The announcement is another step forward in Mayor Adams\u2019 Trash Revolution \u2014 the citywide effort to move trash from black bags on the sidewalk to rat-resistant, closed containers.<\/p>\n

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