Uptown Community Launches Effort to Clean Streets

Uptown Community Launches Effort to Clean Streets

July 11, 2011 7:23am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

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Piles of trash are strewn throughout Inwood. (DNAinfo/Carla Zanoni)

UPPER MANHATTAN — Crushed soda cans. Busted beer bottles. Leftover chicken bones and rice.

For some, these are the remnants of a good summertime picnic. For others, they are part of the all too common mess left strewn about the streets of Washington Heights and Inwood, where residents say a lax attitude toward street cleanliness has made sidewalks, stoops and streets unbearable.

“They eat, drink and have fun outside. Then they leave their garbage all over the sidewalk,” Washington Heights resident and blogger Tony Vega wrote on the neighborhood blog Tony Untouchable.

“These people, who I like to refer to as “city pigs,” act as if our sidewalks are their own personal garbage cans or dumping sites.”

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