THE MAYOR TAKES FIVE BOROUGH TOUR TO ANNOUNCE CITY'S CLEANEST AND MOST IMPROVED SANITATION DISTRICTS
MANHATTAN 3 AND BROOKLYN 8 DISTRICTS SHOW MOST IMPROVEMENT; STATEN ISLAND DISTRICT 3, QUEENS DISTRICT 11, AND BRONX DISTRICT 10 ARE CLEANEST
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Department of Sanitation (DOS) Commissioner John J. Doherty today toured the five boroughs, visiting two neighborhoods scoring the City's most improved cleanliness ratings and three communities scoring the highest cleanliness ratings in Fiscal Year (FY) 1997. The significant change in cleanliness results from the implementation of the SLICE ( Streets, Lots, Intensive Cleaning & Enforcement) Program implemented in November 1995. The initiative attacks chronically dirty areas and introduces direct accountability for all sanitation services and conditions in a given district.
The Mayor's tour began at 6:15 AM in the Bronx District 10 Sanitation Garage, located in one of the cleanest districts in the City, where he congratulated sanitation workers for a job well done. Bronx District 10 finished FY 1997 with an average cleanliness rating of 93.9 percent, up from 88.9 percent in FY 1996. The two other districts rated cleanest in the City were Queens East District 11 which ranked 96.9 percent acceptably clean in fiscal 1997, up from 94.7 percent in fiscal 1996, and Staten Island District 3 which scored 96.3 percent acceptably clean in FY 1997, an improvement from 92.7 percent the previous year.
The two most improved districts were Manhattan District 3 with a 77.8 percent cleanliness rating in FY 1997, up from 46.1 percent in FY 1996, and Brooklyn North District 8 with a 74.1 percent rating in FY 1997, up from 47.2 percent in FY 1996.
"Today, I'm here to congratulate the hard working men and women of the Department of Sanitation for their tremendous achievements in making our City a cleaner place for all New Yorkers. During Fiscal Year 1997, the City's streets received an average rating of 83.2 percent acceptably clean; the highest previous fiscal year average was 74.6 percent in Fiscal Year 1995. All of the City's 59 sanitation districts averaged above 67 percent acceptably clean."
"In 1974, Manhattan's District 3 was the first to implement the scorecard system and in ten years following was consistently rated one of the "dirtiest" districts in New York City, rating below 50 percent for each of the previous 22 fiscal years. Today, the City is proud to announce that Manhattan District 3 is now one of the most dramatically improved districts in the City, with an averaged cleanliness rating of 77.8 percent in Fiscal Year 1997, up from a rating of 46.1 percent clean in Fiscal year 1996, and 38.5 percent in Fiscal Year 1994. This is the first time in the history of the scorecard program that the streets in District 3 were considered clean, receiving a rating above 50 percent."
"Similarly, Brooklyn North District 8 is now one of the City's most improved districts with a rating increase from 47.2 percent in FY 1996 to 74.1 percent clean in FY 1997. That's an amazing achievement considering two years ago in Fiscal year 1995 the street rating was only at 37.9 percent acceptably clean."
"While much of the City's success can be attributed to the new strategies of the Department of Sanitation implemented by Commissioner Doherty, including the SLICE Program, credit must also be given to the residents of these communities who worked together with the City to help achieve these significant results," the Mayor said.
The stops on the Mayor's five-borough tour included:
District #5 in the Bronx: Sanitation Garage, 850 Zerega Avenue at Lafayette Avenue
District #3 in Manhattan: South Street at Pike Slip (Under FDR Drive);
District #3 in Staten Island: Giffords Lane & Amboy Road;
District #11 in Queens: CVS Parking Lot at Northern & Bell Blvds.; and
District #8 in Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum Parking Lot at Eastern Parkway & Washington Ave.
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