Mayor Eric Adams’ vision to eliminate the notorious piles of trash on New York City’s sidewalks may not be fully realized for another seven years, according to documents published by the sanitation department on Wednesday.
The protracted timeline was included in a notice by the city to conduct an environmental review on a plan to install large trash containers in parking spaces across the five boroughs. The sanitation department aims to require every building with 30 or more units to dump their garbage into those bins rather than stack trash bags on the curb.
The notice states the full rollout isn’t expected to be finished until June 2032, which some experts said highlights the city’s onerous bureaucracy as well as a lack of political will by Adams to take away street parking…