released Monday shows a marked drop in the number of streets rated “acceptable” over the past three years — from 96.4% in fiscal year 2020, to 93.7 in 2021, to 89.6% in 2022.
The Department of Sanitation argues the metric used to measure cleanliness is antiquated and doesn’t fully capture the work being done to make the city cleaner, according to a spokesperson. In November 2021, the office of operations changed its sampling method from surveying the same 6,899 blocks every month to a dynamic rotating model.
In last year’s budget, the mayor allocated nearly $41 million more for his “Get Stuff Clean” initiative which included targeting neighborhoods across the city for increased cleanups, like clearing debris from vacant or empty lots. Commercial trash is collected by private commercial-waste carters, an industry that is regulated by the Business Integrity Commission.
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