In late June, I was standing at an intersection in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, at 5 a.m., surveying a row of hulking gray bins that lined the curb. Next to me, Joshua Goodman, the deputy ...

Thousands more specialized trash bins will be coming to neighborhoods across New York City's five boroughs over the next year and a half in an attempt to mitigate the city's ongoing rat problem, Mayor ...

Bins meant to hold dozens of large trash bags are part of New York City's latest defense against rats. Some residents are already seeing an improvement, but others say it's not worth the amount of ...

New York City is moving closer to a future with fewer black trash bags on sidewalks, and it is doing it by placing big, locked trash containers in the street. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani said “no New ...

These drivers are in for rat-ical change. West Harlem has become the first neighborhood in the United States to have all of its trash containerized in order to squash uptown rats’ curbside trash ...

The city is ramping up its effort to move trash off the sidewalks by expanding its Empire Bin program into more neighborhoods. Officials say up to 10,000 Empire Bins will be installed across eight ...