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Alternate side parking will be fully restored beginning July 5, 2022.
By Forum Staff
Mayor Eric Adams and City Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Monday announced an $11 million investment in cleaner streets and improved mobility for DSNY.
As part of an effort to make City streets cleaner, alternate side parking will be fully restored beginning July 5, 2022.
This $11 million commitment will appear in the Fiscal Year 2023 executive budget to be released later this month, Adams said.
“Environmental justice begins at the street level, and clean streets are vital to vibrant neighborhoods and our city’s economic recovery,” Tisch added. “The nearly 10,000 DSNY employees — and I’m proud to count myself as one of them — are excited to be getting more of the tools we need to do our job of keeping the city healthy, safe, and clean.”
The investment includes:
- A full restoration of alternate side parking, to allow DSNY’s mechanical brooms to do their jobs. Mechanical brooms are the city’s most effective tools for street cleaning — sweeping litter from along the curb on thousands of miles of New York City streets. ASP had been partially suspended as a COVID-19 pandemic measure, and this restoration is not only part of a return to normal, but to the high level of street cleanliness New Yorkers expect and deserve.
- Funding for both equipment and personnel to perform year-round street cleaning on protected bike lanes and other narrow infrastructure. DSNY will begin piloting sweeping operations this summer using a fleet of 10 Micromobility Operations Machines (MOMs), similar to the ones used to plow bike lanes effectively during winter 2021-2022. DSNY will have several dozen of these units in two different sizes by the end of next year.
Each of these initiatives builds on existing work by DSNY, and takes services for New Yorkers “to a new level” officials said. During the partial ASP suspension, DSNY and the City Cleanup Corps continued to sweep the streets as effectively and as fully as possible. This announcement will facilitate that work further. Similarly, the MOMs street sweeping program follows a successful implementation of these devices for plowing — often simultaneous with car-lane clearance.
“We’re no longer just going to talk about cleaning up our streets or taking steps to fight climate change, but we’re going to actually put really money behind these initiatives and lead by example here in New York City,” said Mayor Adams. “To begin Earth Week, we’re committing $11 million to cleanliness and expanded mobility so that our city can come back stronger than ever. This announcement includes items that have been talked about for years, but we’re finally ‘Getting Stuff Done’ for our neighborhoods.”
“New Yorkers in every neighborhood deserve clean streets, sidewalks, and bike lanes. We congratulate Jessica Tisch on her appointment to DSNY commissioner and applaud her commitment from day one to keep bike lanes clean,” said Danny Harris, executive director, Transportation Alternatives. “As New York City’s bike boom continues, keeping bike lanes free of trash and debris is important to keeping riders safe. We look forward to working with the new commissioner to getting litter off the streets in all parts of the city.”
