Mayor Eric Adams is set to leave behind a cleaner city than the one he inherited.
Over the last four years, he oversaw a slate of reforms he dubbed the “trash revolution,” which centers around getting piles of trash bags off New York City’s sidewalks and into bins. But with Adams leaving office at the end of the month, it’ll be up to incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fully realize that vision. The task that will require a fundamental reshaping of the city’s streets and the loss of tens of thousands of parking spaces.
The city sanitation department under Adams has mandated all businesses and residential buildings with fewer than 10 units put out their garbage in secured, wheeled containers. The new rules were followed by a drop in reported rat sightings and a reduction in the city’s notorious trash mountains…