NEW YORK — The green litter basket had stood on a street corner in the Harlem neighborhood of New York for as long as anyone could remember, collecting unwanted plastic bottles, candy wrappers ...

“We will be able to maintain 23,000 litter baskets around our city and continue to install the litter basket of the future,” he added. “As a result of these restorations, New Yorkers will ...

But we're seeing in some of the initial data since July 1st citywide, improvement in, for example, litter basket complaints being down 60 percent. Not just for one neighborhood, from every ...

New York City is finally cleaning up its act. Beginning Wednesday, the Big Apple is “restoring significant funding” for litter basket collection — after pickup for public trash baskets… ...

Only a fraction — over 300, according to DSNY — of the city’s approximate 23,000 litter baskets are in the new form. An additional 1,000 new baskets are on the way, said DSNY.

This year, the Department of Sanitation was hit with more than $100 million in budget cuts forcing the agency to reduce its litter basket pickups across the city by 60%.