Liam Quigley
photos, news, and hot action! / covering NYC parks & sanitation for @WNYC @Gothamist / [email protected]
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley
A new crop of high-tech trash containers began landing on streets in upper Manhattan this month, the latest step in the sanitation department’s years-long effort to banish piles of trash bags from city sidewalks. The department’s new “Empire Bins” are now set up outside eight uptown schools, where they’re used to collect compost, recycling and garbage.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley
Four public bathrooms in Tompkins Square Park are coming back to life after a two-year, $5.6 million overhaul. The New York City Parks Department shut down the Tompkins Square Park field house two years ago after its infamous restrooms had been long ranked among the worst in the city. The dirty and decrepit bathrooms had become so odious that those brave enough to enter would hold their noses as they did their business.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley |Stephen Nessen
Authorities are still searching for the rotors attached to a tourist helicopter that plunged into the Hudson River, killing all six people aboard, officials said Friday. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy cautioned that the investigation into the Thursday crash was in its earliest stages.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley |Giulia Heyward |Ramsey Khalifeh
A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon, according to the NYPD, and at least 2 people were pulled from the water. Police said the aircraft went down at 3:17 p.m. towards the New Jersey side of the river at Houston Street. The conditions of the two individuals were not immediately known. Witnesses who saw the crash from the Manhattan waterfront said they heard a loud boom before the helicopter fell into the water.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Liam Quigley
Several New York City lawmakers want to kick the sanitation department’s composting mandate to the curb. The City Council’s conservative-leaning “Common Sense Caucus” introduced legislation on Thursday that would get rid of the fines imposed on property owners who fail to separate their organic waste from the rest of their garbage.
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