Sanchez questions Anderson on supplemental cleaning for high-density and nightlife areas
Sanchez asks whether DSNY provides supplemental cleaning to high-traffic or nightlife districts. Anderson confirms DSNY tailors service levels based on density, transit, and land use, noting existing nightlife resources on the Lower East Side and opportunities in growing outer-borough nightlife districts like Hunts Point and Bushwick.
Does the department already provide other supplemental cleaning services to community districts with higher density of pedestrian foot traffic or nightlife establishments?
And can you describe the extent of those services and the resources dedicated to such programs?
Yeah, we absolutely tailor our service levels.
based on a number of factors, and that can include the density of bus and subway routes in an area, the amount of commuting traffic, the amount of pedestrian traffic, other kinds of
land uses in a district.
And so I think that's what drives a lot of our resource allocation today.
Nightlife is certainly a part of that.
I remember this was maybe eight or nine years ago when the prior two administrations ago when they created the Office of Nightlife as part of
cultural affairs, there was a real push to reallocate some resources to those nightlife districts.
And some of that is still in place today, particularly on the Lower East Side.
But I think there, you know, as this bill indicates, there's more opportunity, particularly in parts of the outer boroughs that are now growing nightlife districts.
Hunts Point is one.
I think East Williamsburg and Bushwick is another where there's certainly room for more resources if we had the funding.
Brooklyn has taken the throne.
I mean, it's the reality.
I mean, Manhattan nightlife, step it up.
How has the, and that's no shade.
It's no shade.
It's just, we have to be real about what's happening.