Full ASP is back today! Please move your car so we can keep streets clean, safe & healthy. Link in bio. Thanks #sarahmclachan for the inspoš #dsny#fyp
The New York City Department of Sanitation is being trash-talked over a cringey PSA about alternate side parking.
To commemorate the return of two-day-a-week ASP, the agency posted a moody clip to TikTok of its workers feigning tears and pleading with drivers not to leave their cars in the path of its street-sweepers.
āWill you move your car?ā Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch says dramatically from the front seat of a garbage truck in the black and white video.
āEvery day, litter gets on the streets of our city and itās crying out to be cleaned up. A single mechanical broom sucks 1500 pounds of street litter off of New York City streets. But they donāt work if you donāt move your car for alternate side parking,ā she continues.
The TikTok emulates the iconic Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial from 2007 ā the singerās āAngelā plays in the background of the melancholic clip as the sanitation workers longingly ask drivers to āpleaseā move their cars.
After over two years of suspension, alternate side parking was reinstated on July 5. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
āWill you move your car?ā Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch pleads in the TikTok. nycsanitation/TikTokThe video even ends with a plea to āconsider supporting your local animal rescue organization.ā
While some viewers appreciated the throwback, many New Yorkers took the opportunity to trash the Sanitation Department and the reinstatement of the frustrating policy, which was paused at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
āI moved my car today but yāall didnāt come š¢. I need YOU to do your part,ā one driver commented.
āItās all about making money from tickets!! Donāt let them fool you,ā another fumed.
Viceās senior social editor Annalise Domenighini shared the video on Twitter, writing that she was āsickā over the video.
āi have a great team but yeah and iām sick over it too,ā the departmentās assistant commissioner for public affairs, Joshua Goodman, quipped back.
Thousands of city residents have signed a petition in an attempt to reverse ASP. Robert MillerOther viewers pointed out that Tisch should have urged New Yorkers to throw their trash in garbage bins rather than allowing it to accumulate in the street in the first place.
Meanwhile, as of July 6, over 2,500 city-dwellers signed an online petition to reverse the reinstated ASP policy.
Last month, Tisch announced that an estimated 50 percent of drivers donāt move their cars for ASP.
āIām not moving my sāt just so a little box truck can swoop by and kick all that shit at pedestrians and cars parked on the other side instead,ā a Twitter user wrote. āsorry fam, yāall just gonna have to understand.ā





