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Hrm. I wonder why Avenue Y’s overpass gets so messy. (Photo by John)The trash problem beneath the Brighton line subway overpasses in Midwood and Sheepshead Bay is finally going to get a little better after years of complaints from residents. Councilman Chaim Deutsch is sending $15,000 in
activism
Councilman Chaim Deutsch hosted his second community cleanup on Sunday, with volunteers turning out to sweep the sidewalks and gutters of Avenue U between Nostrand Avenue and Coney Island Avenue. Dozens turned out, including volunteers from Homecrest Community Services and local schools like Sheepshead Bay High School and Midwood High
east 14th st
The photo above was taken this morning on Avenue U and East 14th Street. According to reader Tracy M., it’s indicative of “the appalling state of the neighborhood, post snow. This pic was taken this morning at Ave U and East 14. I could have gone for blocks taking
1702 ave z
So this is what I stumbled across on my walk to the coffee shop this morning, a putrid stream of slop and waste stretching a quarter of a block long, and filling the air with rancid scent. The mess is in front of Chikurin, at 1702 Avenue Z. Unfortunately, I
garbage gazette
GARBAGE GAZETTE [/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/garbage2.jpg]: I’m sorry, but people are dopes. I certainly don’t understand the point of these little garbage can prisons, but I also don’t understand why anyone, upon seeing one without a garbage can in it, would think it’s a
garbage gazette
GARBAGE GAZETTE [/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/garbage2.jpg]: In our last edition of Garbage Gazette: Garbage Theory, we deemed the corner “officially a mess” [/garbage-theory-3-and-the-pile-grows/] after Sanitation workers failed to empty [/its-back-return-of-east-14th-street-trash-bin-gives-chance-to-observe-garbage-theory/] it on their Tuesday route, and garbage piled up to the point of mini-avalanches. Friday morning the can
garbage gazette
This happens. A lot. And I guess it’s only natural that debris would be swept into the end of the Bay, accumulating in the corner until tides pull it back again. But, crickies, that’s gross. I guess for every hundred Morning Mug shots we publish showing how gorgeous
7-11
A reader sent in the above photo over the weekend, showing a former sidewalk tree well that has taken on a new life as some sort of insatiable garbage filtering organism. It looks pretty gross to us, but the reader provided a rather succinct description that hammers home just how
garbage gazette
Welcome to a new Sheepshead Bites feature – Garbage Gazette. The idea is very simple. From time to time we’re going to run a series of photos from one of Sheepshead Bay’s main commercial strips. Today we’re looking at Sheepshead Bay Road between East 14th Street and Jerome