NYC Street Cleaners Need Eye Shadow!!!

This is not the best video in the world of NYC street cleaning but it’s the best that I could find. One day, I’ll be making m own videos. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about NYC Street Cleaning just in case you ever come here and you have a car.

As you can see from the video, the Street is 100% clean after this truck goes by. You can even eat off of the street after it goes by. What you don’t see in the video is me eating pizza off the street after the truck goes by. It was delicious.

But, that video is not typical of how things usually are. Let me give you a more accurate vision of what really happens. First, there is a sign that says that you can’t be parked on one side of the street from 9am-10:30am on Tues and Fri. The other side of the street says the same thing but it’s for Mon and Thurs.

Basically, you have to move the car from one side of the street to the other every other day. This gets very annoying. It makes people late for work and all sorts of other stuff. Keep in mind, it’s illegal to double park on the other side of the street. So, every other day you are forced to break the law while they clean the other side of the street. The street cleaner usually sweeps the streets around 9:15. But, you have to wait till 10:30 to park it back on the “clean” side or you’ll get a ticket. In addition to that, if you park / leave your car at 10:27 they will give you a ticket. In fact, there are many NYC ticket writers that wait for this in order to meet their quota. I myself have gotten tickets at 10:29.

Here is how it should work. Each side of the street should have a green and red light. The red light should turn green the second the street sweeper passes. But, this will never happen because the city relies on those tickets to make money. I understand that they need money and I support the city but come on!! It’s this kind of citizen harassment that makes people feel anti-cop and anti-government. I’m neither, but this is what gets your average person upset. People pay $1750 for a studio apartment here. Do they really deserve to get a ticket for parking on a clean street? The NYC Sanitation Department needs a makeover and I’m applying the Mascara : )