These are the public trash cans that live on the corner? Okay, I mean, it doesn't hurt, but this city has a massive rat problem, and they're still not doing anything about the mountains of trash outside commercial buildings in piles on the sidewalk.
What proposal do you have in mind for the city to solve this?
To your points, most brownstones in, say, Park Slope, do have bins in their yard, and the trash collectors remove waste from that bin. This is at least marginal rat resistance. Midrise buildings that are further out than that will have room for dumpsters if they are required.
(Multi-family apartment buildings are a form of commercial real estate, though they are neither office nor retail.)
I live in a neighbourhood not too far from park slope. You have to put your trash on the curb no matter what you live in and where in the city you live. Garbage men dont even want to pick up the trash that falls from then while picking up trash from the curb so I find it incredulous that they enter your yard and take it from a bin.
"Place your items curbside on the curb between 4 PM and midnight the evening before your scheduled pickup".
time variation means people's different work schedules get covered - whether you're at home in the morning, afternoon or evening you'll catch the truck 2x a week
if you live in an apartment building, it makes really good sense to collectivize and hire the work out to someone or share the shore between neighbors depending on socioeconomic bracket
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/environment-and-waste/rubbish-an...
Places where they leave rubbish in plastic bags on the street for hours (even overnight) seem filthy in comparison.
It does not mean this is the only thing they are working on.
Your comment is 100% whataboutism.
It doesn't mean this is the only thing they're working on. Nevertheless it is a fact that they're not working on solving the underlying problem. They are working on marginally better traps that don't actually reduce the population effectively.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/nyregion/rats-new-york.ht...
> “New Yorkers need to understand that they have a role in stopping this,” said [Professor Munshi-South of Fordham University Department of Biological Sciences]. “I don’t believe we have built in a right culture of how to dispose of our garbage. People have not made the connection between what your neighbors are doing with their garbage, and how this feeds the problem.”
Rats spreading disease has been disproven.
They are one of the few species who still manage to survive in the concrete.