Trash Piled Up On UWS Amid Vaccine Mandate Enforcement: Data

Upper West Side NY

04 November, 2021

2:14 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Garbage piled up on the Upper West Side over the past 11 days, amid a slowdown in sanitation services coinciding with the newly imposed vaccination mandate for city works, according to 311 data. Since Oct. 25, residents living in the 10025, 10024, and 10023 ZIP codes have made 66 complaints to 311 about missed trash pickups on the Upper West Side, according to city records. That's exactly triple the complaints made the previous week in the same area when just 22 were filed. In a bit of good news, though, those complaints have fallen drastically in the past few days. The deadline for city workers to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination was Friday afternoon. On Monday, workers who had not gotten a shot were put on unpaid leave. In the days before the mandate took effect, New Yorkers began complaining of missed garbage pickups. Initially most prevalent in Staten Island and south Brooklyn, the trend has since spread to Manhattan neighborhoods, according to 311 data. The missed trash collections were widespread on the Upper West Side. Here's every UWS address where a resident has made a complaint about missed trash pickup since Oct. 25. 150 WEST 96 STREET307 WEST 103 STREET136 WEST 73 STREET993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE351 WEST 71 STREET24 WEST 70 STREET351 WEST 71 STREET303 WEST 66 STREET303 WEST 66 STREET300 AMSTERDAM AVENUE20 WEST 74 STREET1930 BROADWAY351 WEST 71 STREET251 WEST 74 STREET292 RIVERSIDE DRIVE307 WEST 103 STREET8 WEST 71 STREET50 RIVERSIDE DRIVE60 WEST 76 STREET109 WEST 89 STREET120 WEST 86 STREET942 COLUMBUS AVENUE189 WEST 89 STREET159 WEST 82 STREET103 WEST 71 STREET100 WEST 78 STREET201 WEST 81 STREET345 WEST 70 STREET251 WEST 76 STREET351 WEST 71 STREET333 WEST 71 STREET243 WEST END AVENUE152 WEST 66 STREET942 COLUMBUS AVENUE152 WEST 66 STREET103 WEST 71 STREET309 WEST 71 STREET269 WEST 87 STREET985 AMSTERDAM AVENUE311 WEST 74 STREET156 WEST 95 STREET354 CENTRAL PARK WEST155 WEST 83 STREET251 WEST 76 STREET329W WEST 108 STREET211 WEST 105 STREET17 WEST 95 STREET303 WEST 66 STREET152 WEST 66 STREET146 WEST 74 STREET337 WEST 71 STREET2731 BROADWAY211 WEST 105 STREET2731 BROADWAY400 WEST 113 STREET335 RIVERSIDE DRIVE565 WEST END AVENUE33 RIVERSIDE DRIVE203 WEST 87 STREET200 WEST 109 STREET328 WEST 101 STREET310 WEST 72 STREET385 WEST END AVENUE333 WEST 88 STREET344 WEST 87 STREET316 WEST 79 STREET170 AMSTERDAM AVENUE160 WEST 85 STREET292 RIVERSIDE DRIVE153 WEST 78 STREET29 WEST 82 STREET38 DUKE ELLINGTON BOULEVARD170 WEST 78 STREET115 WEST 71 STREET315 WEST 102 STREET171 WEST 79 STREET127 WEST 78 STREET105 WEST 73 STREET101 WEST 77 STREET115 WEST 73 STREET171 WEST 79 STREET130 WEST 78 STREET2728 BROADWAY307 WEST 103 STREET266 WEST 73 STREET325 WEST 76 STREET235 WEST 76 STREET350 WEST 71 STREET316 WEST 88 STREET229 WEST 60 STREET254 WEST 103 STREET245 WEST 99 STREET306 WEST 77 STREET210 RIVERSIDE DRIVE170 AMSTERDAM AVENUE203 WEST 107 STREET324 WEST 71 STREET110 WEST END AVENUE201 WEST 98 STREET21 WEST 100 STREET24 WEST 96 STREET10 WEST 83 STREET211 WEST 105 STREET265 RIVERSIDE DRIVE26 WEST 89 STREET72 WEST 85 STREET431 RIVERSIDE DRIVE431 RIVERSIDE DRIVE993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE49 WEST 72 STREET942 COLUMBUS AVENUE420 CENTRAL PARK WEST128 WEST 71 STREET993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE431 RIVERSIDE DRIVE908 AMSTERDAM AVENUE155 WEST 74 STREET2731 BROADWAY258 WEST 99 STREET240 WEST 72 STREET993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE993 AMSTERDAM AVENUE324 WEST 74 STREET Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested last week the trend was caused by workers staying home to express opposition to the mandate. On Monday, Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson vowed that pickups would resume a normal schedule by later that afternoon. This appears to be true — on Monday and Tuesday, there were only three complaints on the Upper West Side about missed trash collections. As of Sunday, 82 percent of Sanitation workers had gotten at least one vaccine dose — a 20 percent increase since Oct. 19, but still the sixth-lowest of any city agency. Despite the hiccups in agencies like Sanitation and the FDNY, De Blasio's administration has touted the mandates for managing to compel thousands of city workers to get their shots. Some agencies, he noted Monday, had seen double-digit percentage-point increases in vaccination status leading up to this week. In total, 91 percent of city workers had gotten vaccinated by Monday, while about 9,000 people were put on unpaid leave this week for failing to get their shots, de Blasio said. Patch reporter Nick Garber contributed to this report.