It’s a bad day to own a car in New York City. The city is drastically escalating its war on rats, and the casualties are officially your favorite street parking spots.
Officials are planning to eliminate nearly 30,000 legal street parking spaces across the five boroughs to make room for roughly 66,000 “Empire Bins“—the massive, sealed curbside trash containers replacing loose black garbage bags.
Now, the massive clean-up initiative has officially hit its next major milestone in Brooklyn.
How the Empire Bins Actually Work
The program is nothing new. Dubbed the “Empire Bin”during the Adams administration, it began as a pilot program in West Harlem (Manhattan Community District 9) in the summer of 2023…