I can see it now. Tour busses filled with foreigners anxious to see the historic neighborhoods of New York City will soon be bussed into the Sunnyside Gardens area fresh from Landmarked status. A particularly knowledgeable tour guide will get over the PA system describing the history of this brilliant planned community with communal gardens.
"Now if you will look to your left, past the second dumpster, you can see the classic gardens." Tourists will crane their necks snapping photos. "And to your right, passed the dumpster with the large couch sticking out of it, is one of the original fire pull boxes."
Has anyone else noticed the large number of dumpsters strewn about the Gardens? Is this the city's way of dealing with the lack of trash cans in the neighborhood? Answering our prayers with the mother of all trash cans?
Since becoming one who works from home I have witnessed the dumpster become a character much like the neighbors I live next to. There was "the day the dumpster caught fire" when I looked out my window to billowing black smoke. There was "the day that dumpsters were put over the con edison manholes that needed repair." Where the con edison man yelled to the dumpster orderer that he was "an-NOY-YING."
I am happy that places are being rennovated and debris carted off, but here is the problem. The debris isn't carted off! Within a day these dumpsters are filled past their brims and then just left for weeks on end until they catch fire (and are then refilled) or become filled with such foul material that they literally disintigrate into the earth.
So for all the freegans out there looking for the mecca of dumpster diving, Sunnyside Gardens has a plethora of dumpsters, but in terms of finding anything salvageable, dive at your own risk!
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