City-wide storm debris clean up continues in Manhattan, and has been extended following the additional storms last week.
Storm debris clean-up was initially scheduled to be completed by Monday, June 27th.
With the added debris, it has taken crews longer to clean up the initial area in the southeast area of Manhattan, which they finished on Friday, June 24th.
“If there’s any good news in this, it’s that the June 21st storm largely affected the Northview area, that had not been as affected by the June 11th storm and thus it was last on the list, so there’s been time for that area to be collected and gathered to the curb as well and we’ll take it." City of Manhattan, public information officer, Andrew Lawson says. "Yes, this has compounded what we have to do but it’s actually sort of worked out timing-wise.”
Starting June 27th, crews started working to clean up debris from the curbs in the north central portion of Manhattan.
The United Way is organizing volunteers to help neighbors with debris clean-up and connect them with residents who need assistance with clean-up. You can contact the United Way by calling 2-1-1.
