What a bunch of garbage.
New Yorkers should brace for stumbling around towers of trash along with mountains of snow — with city garbage collection not returning to normal till Monday.
“We expect collection will return to normal by Monday, we expect recycling collection to resume next Monday as well,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference Tuesday.
The city did not pick up garbage Monday or Tuesday because of the storm — and collection will not start again until late Wednesday, Hizzoner said.
“We will be prioritizing crash and compost collection this week,” the mayor said. “I ask New Yorkers to be patient throughout this process.”
“Collection trucks are the same size they’ve always been, but in many areas, twice the amount of material will be out, so delays are possible,” he said.
The stinky news came just weeks after Big Apple residents were forced to grapple with huge piles of trash on the street while “limited” collections dragged on for a week after a previous massive winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow.
The Sanitation Department warned New Yorkers this time around that “collection will be delayed during snow operations” in a Monday night operations update posted to X, noting its “priority is to keep the roadways open” after the city was walloped with 2-plus feet of snow.
