New York City - Living among the garbage

Zohran Mamdani blasted for failure to clean up trash while keeping mansion clear

New York City is drowning in garbage after Winter Storm Fern, but the sidewalks near Mayor Mamdani’s Gracie Mansion residence on East 88th Street are spotless, raising eyebrows across the Upper East Side.

A week after the storm hit, residents in many neighborhoods are battling 6- to 8-foot-high piles of trash, unplowed streets, and rat-infested debris.

The mayor’s inauguration rhetoric about replacing individualism with collective warmth now rings hollow to many.

A resident’s jab on X about the “warm smell of uncollectedi-vism” captures the bitter irony of trash piles growing under this administration’s watch.

Some see this as a classic case of progressive ideals clashing with practical governance. When resources are funneled to high-profile areas while everyday New Yorkers suffer, it’s hard to buy into promises of shared burden.

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City of Lake Worth Beach - Nothing but Excuses

Overflowing for two days in this photo

For months on end, those visiting the City of Lake Worth Beach have endured broken sidewalks, filthy walkways that have not been pressure cleaned and garbage overflowing. Streets are not being swept. People don't even want to visit.

This photo was sent to me by a business owner in our downtown who said that it happens with frequency. It is constantly reported and the excuse seems to be that garbage trucks have broken down. This time he was told that 3 out of 4 trucks were inoperable. Why are they not being maintained?

The city manager needs to hire a service to pick up the garbage if trucks are out of service.

There is no excuse for this.

Try calling any department within the city. You NEVER get a live person. You are shuffled around to eventually leave a voice mail with some unknown party who NEVER calls back. I am yet to receive a call back about getting the final approval for a meter upgrade we did in our building in January. Finally I got it from my insurance agent.

Bravo, taking out the trash and bringing in MAGA

Trump’s Iconic Garbage Truck to Feature in Inauguration Parade

The recent events leading up to Election Day have indeed been a whirlwind of action and controversy, marked by unforgettable moments that defined the political spectacle. One of these standout instances was when Donald Trump made his unforgettable appearance at an event by driving a distinctive ‘Trump’ branded garbage truck.

This bold move was in direct reaction to Joe Biden’s earlier comments, where he allegedly referred to Trump supporters as “garbage.” This striking visual and symbolic gesture by Trump left a lasting impression, highlighting his unapologetic approach to politics.

The latest development in this unfolding narrative is the announcement that the famous Trump-branded garbage truck will be proudly featured in Trump’s forthcoming inauguration day parade. This revelation has been met with excitement and approval by Trump supporters, as it epitomizes the essence of Trump’s unique political style. It’s another testament to his ability to turn criticisms into symbols of defiant pride and solidarity amongst his base. [patriotchronicals]

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Unburdened by What Has Been

Trump and "garbage"

Trump Has Epic Response to Biden who Called  Half of America 'Garbage'

The day after President Biden called Trump supporters "garbage," former President Donald Trump took the stage in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He addressed thousands, wearing a high-visibility garbage worker's vest.

Trump said he decided to show up in a dump truck, dressed like that, on a whim. He joked that the vest made him look thinner and teased that it might become his new go-to outfit. "When they said I’d look thinner, I said in that case, I’ll wear it onstage," he laughed. "I may never wear a blue jacket again."

He didn’t hold back on Biden, the Democrats, and especially Vice President Kamala Harris. He criticized them for "running a campaign of hate, vitriol and retribution." He pointed out Harris's recent remarks, comparing political opponents to mass murderers. He also highlighted Biden's comment about supporters being "garbage." "He called 250 million people ‘garbage.’"

November 5, 2024, will be liberation day in America."

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The Headless Horseman

It's over in 4 more days!

 

Kamala Harris' Garbage Platform: Hate Trump, Hate Trump supporters

Trump: 'Simpleton' Harris Wages Campaign of Hate

Former President Donald Trump, speaking at one of his remaining rallies before Tuesday's presidential election, railed against Vice President Kamala Harris as a "simpleton" and accused her of waging a "campaign of hate" after President Joe Biden's comments that appeared to label Trump supporters as "garbage."

"We're running a campaign of solutions to save America, which they have virtually destroyed during their almost four-year period of rule," Trump said at a rally Wednesday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

"Kamala Harris, a low IQ individual, is running a campaign of hate, anger, and retribution," he added, telling his supporters that Harris and her campaign consider them to be garbage.

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ONLY 4 MORE DAYS--GET IT RIGHT
TO SAVE AMERICA!

Biden worse than the Comedian 😀

President Biden calls all Trump supporters ‘garbage’

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are “garbage” for backing such an “unconscionable” candidate.

The president’s remarks came after insult comic Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke about Puerto Rico being an island of “floating garbage“ during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. While numerous conservative Puerto Ricans came forward to say they were not offended by the joke, Democratic operatives claimed it was malicious and tied it to Trump.

Puerto Ricans are “good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said in response to the controversy during a Zoom call with Voto Latino. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”

Trump’s “demonization” is “unconscionable,” Biden added. “And it’s un-American.”

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Geez, Joe, it was a comedian who said it. Do you think Trump vets everything people will say at his rallies? I didn't think Tony Hinchcliffe was funny either but Jon Stewart did.

Lake Worth Beach resident shoots at Garbage Men

Lake Worth Beach man accused of opening fire on sanitation employees in Lake Worth Beach

A Lake Worth Beach man is in jail after investigators say he fired shots at a group of sanitation employees.

It happened Tuesday afternoon on South Lakeside Drive in Lake Worth Beach where investigators with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office responded to a shooting.

Court records show the victims, all employees with the City of Lake Worth Beach Sanitation Department, reported a man on a bike started shooting at them.

According to court records, the suspect was Oleg Arshinov of Lake Worth Beach. Court records show the employees told investigators that Arshinov originally approached them and told the workers they needed to move their trucks. The workers explained they would move when they were done collecting trash bins but Arshinov began threatening them.

Investigators said, "[the victim] said Arshinov got in his face and [the victim] hit him after telling him several times to get out of his face."

Jamie Brown, Interim City Manager and Director of the Public Works Department, sent WPBF the following statement:

"Yesterday, there was an incident involving City of Lake Worth Beach Public Works employees and a man with a weapon on a bicycle.

Our dedicated solid waste collectors work hard at their jobs, and we are saddened they were threatened while trying to do their jobs.

Fortunately, no one was hurt, and we thank the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office for their quick action to apprehend the man."

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No Refuse Collection in Lake Worth (Beach) tomorrow

City of Lake Worth Beach

Due to Hurricane Dorian there will be no refuse collection in Lake Worth Beach on Monday September 2. Please do not put items at the curb and secure your refuse canisters by bringing them in, tying them securely to a structure, or filling them with water. Please watch for further updates.

The Neighbor from Hell - Pure Trash

No matter where you might live in Lake Worth, there are always people who have no respect for their neighbors or themselves. They care about nothing or anyone. You know the type...pure trash. We have one such neighbor here. He is moving today and we are all rejoicing.

Yesterday, this man who has lived in our community for six years, had his son and some friend move his furniture from his 2nd floor apartment onto trucks. When it started, we just all assumed his furniture was being moved to his new residence. No such luck. He was  very much aware of the rules and was told about them.

You see, he is closing on his unit today and needed it empty. His son and companion then proceeded to drive around the building and empty the furniture into dumpsters. They made several hauls even though they were told that what they were doing was not allowed. They didn't give a damn. We were just pesky irritants to him.

When I talked to the son of the owner who was doing the dumping, he proceeded to get arrogant. I have subsequently learned that he was just hired at the Boynton Beach Police Department as a policeman. This has not been verified but a Board Director in that building says that is a fact.

All of us who were out there watching his illegal dumping received smart aleck remarks from him. At several points he even waved to us from a distance, his way of saying "screw you, this community and your rules."  Of course, the rules are the City of Lake Worth's.

We called PBSO and after an hour or so an officer showed up. He said he couldn't do anything because it was private property. However, the trash bins belong to the city. So I don't understand why he just couldn't be bothered to write a report. I guess we don't pay these people enough.

I called my absolute favorite city employee, our director of Public Works, Jamie Brown, during this and he said that he would take care of it. He did just that at 7am this morning.

The City Utility Department was called and the reprobate will be paying for his illegal dumping.

Lake Worth to change to dual stream recycling

On tonight's agenda under New Business is the agreement between Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County regarding our garbage and recycling program.

Right now we have a single stream system where paper products, glass, cans, etc. are all dumped into the same bin and then sorted out at the facility. Unfortunately, there are really dumb people and some of them live right in my own community. Right on the bin it says NO PLASTIC BAGS and every single day there are plastic bags in our bins. I don't dumpster dive but I sure do get rid of garbage in our recycling bins. I have found orange peels and God knows what.

The city switched to single stream due to money.but thanks to people who don't or can't read or have any comprehension whatsoever about what to recycle even though it's printed right on the bins, the city now wants to go with duel stream system where items are eparated:  paper products and plastics/glass into two separate bins.  The city does not get reimbursed when people throw garbage into the recycling bins.

From the back-up:
WM is  also  moving  away from  dual  stream  recycling.  WM  does  not  want  to  renew  the  existing  dual  stream  contract with the City that expires 9/30/18 unless the City agrees to pay   WM $85/ton of dual stream recycling
 
The difference from receiving $10/ton to paying $85/ton to WM is not financially feasible. The alternative is to return  to dual  stream  recycling.  SWA  now  provides  a  cost  share  based  on  market  rate.  The  cost  for  new dual  stream  recycle  bins  city-wide  is  $220k,  $147,000 of  which  the  City will  need  pay back to  SWA.  For  that  reimbursement, SWA and the City will have a 50/50 split of the future recycling revenues until the $147,000 is paid in full.  At that point, the City will then collect 100% of the recycling revenues moving forward.

SWA  brought  this  Interlocal  Agreement  before  their board  for  approval  on  4/24/18.  City approval  of  this Agreement  would  allow  SWA  to  place  the  order  for  new  bins  to  be  distributed city-wide  so  that  dual  stream  collection can begin on or before 10/01/18

So, the commission will vote on a duel system. People where I live can't even get a single system right. Hopefully, people will be more cognizant of what can be recycled and what can't when they see different colored bins and the city will be able to make a few bucks.

Refuse collection Lake Worth

Refuse
The City of Lake Worth Refuse collections are returning to normal. As of this week all carts are being collected on the normal schedule, the only difference is that the 6 cubic yard hurricane amnesty remains in place until the end of the week.

 Please be aware from Monday (October 9),  the vegetation/bulk limit will be 4 cubic yards (roughly equivalent to 2 standard refrigerators)

Women's March - The After Effects

Besides their garbage mouths, they left the entire area a pigsty. Read the clean-up report.

Clean-Up Report

Cringe-Worthy Moments:

Lake Worth Garbage cans painted

One thing that should be used more often are trash cans within the City of Lake Worth. Most people do a pretty good job at our beach but sometimes our major streets have a problem.

Two dozen kids from Lake Worth High School, in an event sponsored by the Rotary Club and the NAPC, cleaned up dirty grimy trash cans and painted them along Dixie Highway.

Even Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell was painting cans!

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Vegetation Amnesty Lake Worth

Dates of Vegetation Amnesty Pick-Up are as Follows:

Monday, May 23 | Zone 1
Tuesday, May 24 | Zone 4
Thursday, May 26 | Zone 2
Friday, May 27 | Zone 3

Place all vegetation curbside (unless you're in a condo) on your regular vegetation pick-up day as indicated above and the City of Lake Worth Refuse Division will remove it at no additional charge.

DEFINITIONS OF VEGETATION ITEMS ARE AS FOLLOWS

• Includes bagged leaves, grasses, and tree or shrubbery cuttings incidental to the care of your lawn and garden that are capable of being containerized. (Please use the green container with the black lid for all vegetation that will fit inside the container.)

• Tree branches less than (2) inches in diameter, branches and palm fronds less than (4) feet in length, and stumps less than (15) inches in diameter and or less than fifty (50) pounds.

Garbage collection classification and Zoning are two different things

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I received a comment last night that said "Stop the insanity." This reader was upset that their trio of Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso was taking some sort of blame for what happened to the seniors at Palm Beach Mobile Home Park.

"Lynn, PLEASE address the fact that the ordinance was approved by a PREVIOUS Commission. At least be forthright in acknowledging this fact. How in your mind, is this somehow an "evil 3" enactment?? Stop the Insanity, please....."

City Manager Bornstein was told by staff that a resolution was passed in 2009 that rated certain establishments as "commercial" for garbage pick-up purposes. The mobile home owners were not aware of any change in their status as curbside pick-ups were done from the beginning when this land was plotted out for mobile home lots and that service continues. Some of the residents have been there, like its president, for over 30 years with garbage pick-up in front of their home.

What came as the surprise was when the park was notified just a few weeks ago that garbage would be handled differently than it had from inception. Little explanation and certainly zero sympathy was given to the mobile home owners.

I believe, and its only an assumption, that this all came to light when the City of Lake Worth contracted with Waste Management for Roll-Off services for commercial and residential properties back in August 2015. This Trio commission was getting ready for the Park of Commerce that was in the process of design, etc. and realized then that their big garbage trucks were looming down these narrow roads. Through discussions, the mobile home park's garbage designation was mentioned and that it had changed in 2009 to a commercial service and rate.

And don't forget, in January Waste Management gave Scott Maxwell a campaign contribution of $1,000.

Prior to that, in June 2015, the commission voted for Eminent Domain at the Park of Commerce. Eminent Domain, something Trump says is a wonderful thing, is used for the public good such as for government buildings and other facilities, public utilities, highways, and railroads. It is not used for the benefit of private developers. This trio of commissioners, Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso voted for Eminent Domain at the Park of Commerce.

It is no wonder that the residents there feel like they have been treated like second class citizens. Garbage pick-up classification and their zoning are two different things. The first (garbage classification) took place in 2009 which was by Resolution and did not have to be publicly noticed. The other (land-use zoning) occurred in August 2013 under this commission and public notice was required.

Author Joyce Meyer said, "Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump."  A lot of people come over here trying to do just that.  There is NO insanity, just people who want to be treated right.

Seniors Protest at Lake Worth City Hall - "We're being treated like garbage"

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They came in their wheel chairs, their motorized scooters, their canes and their pride. They were all senior citizens, some in their 90's, one with Multiple Sclerosis. One lady was on oxygen with one lung remaining. They were all there to protest about a city decision to end their garbage pick-up in front of their homes. City Manager Bornstein said they fell through the cracks as the Zoning was changed there in 2009 and garbage pick-up should have changed at that time. Not so, says the park residents...the city changed the zoning in 2012 but it was only recently that they received a letter from the city telling them that curbside service would end.

If you recall, about ten days ago the president of the homeowner's association at Palm Beach Mobile Home Park located off Boutwell Road in the Park of Commerce sent me a letter with all of their concerns...I posted it on my blog. The residents were upset that where they live has been rezoned to commercial from residential and now they say that the city wants to end their garbage pick-up in front of their house wanting them to deposit it in a central dumpster within the property.

Scott Maxwell showed up saying he would get to the "bottom of it."  The Park of Commerce is his "baby" and now, as that old cliche goes, the park residents feel they are being thrown out with the bath water.

No one from the city has explained to them what is going on or that we are pouring $11 million into the Park of Commerce this year for infrastructure to attract development. All they know is, they now are denied permits for their homes and have been told that they cannot get their roads fixed. The straw that broke the camel's back? Ending garbage pick-up in front of their homes.

Channel 5 video
Channel 12 video
Palm Beach Post article

Plea from Concerned Lake Worth Citizen - Wake Up Lake Worth

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I don't know if you can help us or not but the over 600 "seniors" at Palm Beach Mobile Home Park are very upset with the current Lake Worth City Council and Mayor.  It does not appear that they care about what is happening to our city or our specific community.

We have the following concerns:

1. They changed the zoning of the park to Industrial without giving us a chance to voice our opinion.  They used the excuse that they sent out a letter several years ago to the previous owners of the park that the current owners did not know anythings about.  The previous owners objected to their plans but that did not matter to Lake Worth.  A few years back we found out only by having one of our residents being refused a permit to add a Florida room to his home.  He was told that no one could add any square footage to their homes as we were now zoned as industrial.

2. We just found out recently that since we were zoned as Commercial (now they are using this term) that they no longer had to provide us with curbside Garbage pick up.  They would now require the residents to place their garbage in a container that will be placed in the common area of the park.  WE ARE SENIORS IN THIS PARK and to expect people in their 70's, 80's and 90's to haul their garbage to a container and then try to get it in the container is in our opinion elder abuse.  Their excuse is that our streets are too narrow to do safe pick up.  I have lived here since 1982 and they have not had this problem in the past, why is it a problem now.

3. We have a street that the residents used to come in and out of the park (Joyce Street) that is full of pot holes and they state that they have no intention of repairing the street.

4. With their new plan of "building their 'Park of Commerce' there are plans to take some of the property that is now park property to achieve their goals.

5.We have had an increase in crimes in our park as well as the area around us and yet that does not seem to concern them.

We feel that they are trying to take the park away from us.  We live on limited incomes (maybe we don't pay the city enough to live here).  To force over 600 senior citizens out of the park or to take services away from us or to zone this park as Industrial shows us that seniors do not matter to the city.  From their plans it looks like they just want the upper class here.  They treat us like trailer trash.

The city needs to concentrate on decreasing crimes rather than building more useless buildings.  They need to care more about the people of this city and not on how they can make more money to spend it anyway they want or lining their pockets.

I don't care what they say, this city has declined tremendously since I moved here.  It was a safer and cleaner city.  Making Lake Avenue beautiful did not make the city more beautiful.  Making the beach more beautiful only took more of the beach away from the residents.  They took the naturalness away from it and made it look like something from a ritzy resort.  I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We were a beautiful quaint little town and now we are a town with crime so bad that you can no longer walk the streets and be ensured of a nice evening.  Their vision is obscured by their own personal needs.  Wake up Lake Worth.  Tourists have come here for years.  The Canadians have been coming here and buying property for years.  Now they are selling their properties because of the decline in Lake Worth.  Stop making laws that are pointless and that no one is going to enforce and start fixing the problem.

Thank you for allowing me to vent my concerns that are felt by all of us.

A very Concerned Citizen