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On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they'd been chewed through by rats the night before.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh, today I learned that NYC just leave their trash outside to be picked up, instead of in containers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah there's literally just piles of garbage lining all the streets. Then they call it the greatest city on earth 🙄

[–] cybervseas 6 points 1 year ago

It's an infamous part of city life, at least in Manhattan!

[–] RagingRobot 3 points 1 year ago

Wait til you smell it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They actually had Oscar the grouch style trash containers up until the sanitation strike of 1968. For whatever reason they just never came back after the strike ended.

[–] ALavaPulsar 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always felt so bad for the sanitation workers who had to spend all day picking up heavy bags of trash and throwing them in the back of the truck.

[–] Salamendacious -1 points 1 year ago

It's gotta be hard work.