First the good, then the bad

I returned from vacay Friday night to find that my neighbor's disgusting clothing bin was gone!! "Oh happy day, calloo, callay!!" Before I left, the DSNY had slapped on some orange removal stickers, and shortly thereafter the neighbor(?) painted over them. But the DSNY was not fooled, for they came back and hauled away this receptacle-of-nastiness. Hopefully this neighbor will not try to plant a new one on the other side of his lawn or in his driveway. I certainly wouldn't put it past him. But for now, I will just revel in the fact that there are currently no bins on the block. No more mountains of wet clothing all over the sidewalk, no more people shoving themselves headfirst into a broken metal box to dig through a pile of crap (it really was a pile of crap: broken toys, single shoes, etc). All that remains of the bin now are scattered puzzle pieces.

So that's SOME good news, woohoo!! Thank you DSNY!! And thank you Community Board 4!

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Meanwhile, 43rd Avenue did not disappoint. A new TV set appeared, along with a bucket of what looks like cat litter but was actually labeled as some kind of construction material (I forgot what it was). And as you can see, a random bag of garbage joined the collection too. I called this in last night (1-1-111537-0321). Actually, when I walked by the pile a little later, I saw that someone had picked up the cat litter/construction material bucket. But that still leaves the dang TV, the third one deposited on 43rd Avenue since the city stopped picking up electronics. What the heck do they expect people to do with their TVs now? Wait for a disposal event that is close enough to home that we can put our old TV sets in a shopping wagon and walk them over? Apartment buildings of a certain size can arrange for pick-ups of electronics, but what about people who do not live in such buildings and do not have vehicles? I just predict that I'll be seeing many more television sets on the Avenue :o(

43rd Avenue dump pile, June 14, 2015

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New crap on the side of the sh*tty empty building on 43rd Ave

 

And what weekend would be complete without a visit from the 43rd Avenue "artist"? He or she added this new marking to the side of the empty building/scene of my recent death threat. Maybe our artist has enrolled in a medical program. These scribbles vaguely resemble V-tach ECG waves. Well kudos to you, young artist, kudos to you! Just don't let all this fancy schoolin' get in the way of your nightly 43rd Avenue pot smoking!