Nodine Hill is only about half a square mile but with a population of over 14 thousand people, the population density is more than two and a half times that of the rest of Yonkers. Several Clean Up Days and targeted individual projects like the stair way clean up have been well attended and have cleared the streets but the problem created by there being so many people remains and continues to cause accumulation on the streets.
Just down the hill around Getty Square and Larkin Plaza there are permanent decorated municipal trash cans and 6 trash trucks have been painted to look nice. We are Yonkers residence and if Yonkers can spend money on decorated trash cans and trucks for other parts of Yonkers then Yonkers has the responsibility to provide trash cans in Nodine Hill. The Public Works Website says it " The quality of life of any City is very dependent on this type of maintenance program.
Commissioner John A. Liszewski
City of Yonkers Department of Public Works
City Hall 40 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10701
Dear Commissioner Liszewski,
We the undersigned Nodine Hill Community residence are writing to express the need for municipal trash cans in the neighborhood. Nodine Hill is only about half a square mile but with a population of over 14 thousand people, the population density is more than two and a half times that of the rest of Yonkers. Accumulation of trash as a result has been a continuous problem. Several Clean Up Days and targeted individual projects like the stair way clean up have been well attended and have cleared the streets but the problem created by the population density remains and continues to cause accumulation on the streets.
The main thoroughfare in Nodine Hill is Elm Street and there are only a few trash cans on Elm Street. The result of there being so many people with so few public trash cans is that Elm Street along with the neighboring streets in Nodine Hill slowly and steadily accumulates trash, which in turn encourages littering, vandalism and a general lack of respect for our neighborhood, which in turn is adding cost and workload to your Street Maintenance Division and effects the over all quality of life in the neighborhood.
Yonkers is not that unlike other places like NY where Dr. Kelling%u2019s research was done and his Broken Windows theory was formulated and later implemented by Mayor Giuliani. It takes its name from the evidence based observation that a few broken windows in an empty building quickly leads to more smashed panes, more vandalism and eventually to break-ins and these things end up costing the city money and costing neighborhood residents their quality of life.
Thank you for taking the time to read our petition and please consider the proactive move of supplying trash cans to Nodine Hill.
