Queens is Trashiest Boro by Reuven Blau - NYPOST.com

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This NY Post story doesn't surprise me at all (in fact I was going to post an item on my blog with the photos below)...I have been noticing how filthy my community and others have become in Bloomberg's New York City so I began taking photographs of the corner trash cans near my home in early June...I think the intersections of Liberty Avenue and Crossbay Boulevard and the intersection of 101st Avenue and 94th Street/Woodhaven Boulevard are the worst I've seen in all my years living in the neighborhood - which is the late 1960's ...Take a look at the slideshow to see for yourself...The photos were all taken on three different days - June 3rd, June 7th and June 13th...I must say that every neighborhood I've visited recently in Queens and Brooklyn have looked terrible, but Manhattan still looks like the Emerald City...In King Bloomberg's NYC we have to keep the tourists happy - screw the tax paying residents...

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What a waste!

Queens neighborhoods are at the top of the heap in garbage collection, leading the city with 160,000 tons of trash picked up by the city's Department of Sanitation last year.

The district encompassing Jamaica, St. Albans and Springfield Gardens swept the field, with an output of 82,124 tons of trash, followed by the district that includes Flushing, College Point and Whitestone, with 77,081 tons.

In third place, the district that collects from the south shore of Staten Island dumped 70,249 tons, while the Upper East Side weighed in with a close 69,744 tons. Borough Park in Brooklyn trailed in fifth place, with 67,869 tons.

New York City's population stands at 8,363,710 and is growing by some 30,000 to 60,000 a year, according to the American Community Survey.

Still, the city's overall refuse output continued to drop for the fourth year in a row, despite the increasing population.

In 2009, 2.5 million tons of trash was collected, down from 2.6 million in 2008.

"Its definitely recession driven," Turso said.

Bloomberg: Don't Like Tourists? You're "a Pretty Sick Person" by Adam Lisberg - Daily Politics - NY Daily News

Is the Mayor an eternal optimist or an an out of touch elitist...With the amount of time he spends outside the City in the Bahamas he probably qualifies as a tourist...

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Mayor Bloomberg: eternal optimist, municipal cheerleader, and occasionally a guy who sells you a preposterous tale with a face so deadpan you start to wonder if he really does believe it after all.

Asked this morning about the pranksters who painted a dividing line on a Fifth Ave. sidewalk to separate the tourists from the locals, Bloomberg acted as though it were a friendly gesture to give tourists their own space to gawk at the city and buy things, without getting hassled by busy New Yorkers who use the sidewalks to actually walk places.

“It certainly says something about our feeling for tourists. They’re willing to give up some space to the people that come here and support our industries. ... This is why you have a job and I have a job is because (of) tourists that come here and I thought it was very cute. I don’t think you’re going to keep people in those lanes but the more tourists that come here…

“When I saw it I said, ‘Oh, that’s a nice thing to do.’ But you can’t do that every place for tourists and we’re not about to go to say to tourists, ‘Well, we’re going to clear off some streets just for you.’ ”

Clearly, Bloomberg never tried to walk down Broadway when "Total Request Live" was broadcasting from the MTV studios. But surely he knows what it's like to try to walk down a sidewalk while the fanny-pack-and-jean-shorts contingent stops five across to read a map and try to find the Olive Garden, right? Or as WCBS-AM's Rich Lamb put it, couldn't you take the sidewalk lanes as a response from people annoyed by all the tourists?

“I’d be happy to introduce you to a lot of people who feed their families based on tourists, and if you want to talk to them I think you’ll find exactly the reverse," Bloomberg shot back. "I don’t remember hearing anybody really complain about tourists. They complain about noise on the tourist buses. We’ve done something about that. But you’ve got to be a pretty sick person to take it that way, I think.”