Gee...since cold war everyone has known NYC be nuked in event of a nuclear exchange. And no surprise to everyone NYC be target of a nuke/dirty bomb/weapon of mass destruction by rogue state actors as well.

chinatown needs the gwailos to surive..as if the asian folks currently living there pay enough to cover the expenses.

Well they are renting out the market units for profit to gwailos to subsidize the operation of the rent regulated units for existing asian population. The holdouts still want to own the properties. All depends on how much money toss at them and when their rent regulated units become too much of a burden for them keep.

Most of the chinatown buildings are owned by few select asian families that had a pact long ago to never sell outside the group. If one ones to exit, the remaining get first dibs and pools to buy out the member leaving. Its how chinatown stayed chinatown for this long. Naturally as each generation pass, someone gets sway from from the pack with larger offers. Personally not a fan of these racial covenant and I will call it out and should be done away even if it means losing diluting the demographics of the area.

Area is prime real estate but good amount are RS/RC plus with buildings aging and ever costly to run based on the rent collected...who else is able to pay the higher rent but not the non asian folk to subsidize the remaining rent regulated units? plus exodus of its asian demographics to cheaper areas - harder to keep chinatown within the family.

Would argue - that chinatown needs non asian money to keep it afloat more than ever.

Dumb hill to die on

Its the embassy and common practice by all nations. Every nation's embassy on foreign soil is a foreign intelligence staging post

So he is in the wet work business

nah 2x where I live. either way def not everyday to make those bins work in example hence city can never afford to make these bins work for entire city

paying for excess trash is the norm for rest of world and most places in usa as well.

It will overflow. Even in video they state it requires daily pickup and by private contractors I bet. That alone is not feasible for city to do with current staffing.

City cant afford it and don't have the manpower to do daily pickups. If you cant see that, you simply blind of reality. How often the city pick up your trash? think that small bin will hold it for the downtime for pickup? nope

Only way out of our trash mess is to drastically reduce the trash

Also not trash lobby

barely afford the 100B budget but you want to add a few B out of no where for more sanitation on top of other budget woes? sure dude

be sanitation not nypd writing tickets and they already write plenty

majority of the us charges for excess trash vs the flat rate toss as much you can do here

still boils down...you want to live in front of the community garbage collection site that has the unfair burden? those residents and owners will fight it

have to start somewhere. fines and punishment has always been used by our society to correct behavior.

yes their garbage not the entire blocks garbage infront of them.

would you live infront of community garbage collection site?

You honestly think its easier to massively expand the sanitation force + dig a bunch of holes in ground or place other bins? The expense alone makes this unfeasible for city.

OR easier for city to slap fines and fees to correct our trash problem. Far easier and cheaper the later for city to implement fast.

The building of the site chosen to house all the trash for entire street infront/near them wont support this idea. The residents in those corner spots will be in uproar.

Its here as well. Over 9k communities here in USA. 62/100 largest cities in USA has some form of PYT. Canada has this too, go to Toronto. Basically it's the norm around the world and rest of USA to charge for excess trash vs flat rate we get here

these other places pay taxes + trash fee

if not in specify bag, building fined and not picked up. eventually everyone gets on board

No counting required since you have to use specific bags purchase from city. If not in those bag, they wont get picked and household fined. Simple process. More trash you generate, more bags you buy from city.

While those giant containers system look nice, it will simply cost a arm and leg to install and to get our sanitation to pick them up regularly. Plus need truck upgrades. So never going to happen due to cost.

Charge folks to pay as you throw after certain free amount. Not rocket science either, practice by many municipalities.

https://cbcny.org/research/better-way-pay-solid-waste-management

Hard to dig anywhere in city to make a hole for underground bin without hitting something critical. Also that NYU bin is serviced daily by private contractor. Good luck NYC Sanitation doing that. We have to dramatically expand our sanitation force at great expense. Cheaper to just force ppl to toss less garbage so less storage space needed