Dear New Yorkers, The much-lauded compost program in Queens has gone into hibernation for the winter — and its fans are not happy. The sanitation department paused the curbside organic-waste pilot program in December, and said it will begin again in March. The borough-wide program diverted 12.7 million pounds of material from landfills in just a few months of operation. Now, Queens locals are wondering where to put their smelly bags of scraps. “I really hope they bring it back and they bring it back soon,” said Andrea Scarborough of southeast Queens, where DSNY collected the most organic waste in the first months of the program. “You finally get neighbors buying into this and then you stop it. It’s the wrong approach if you’re trying to move people in the direction of composting and moving waste from landfills.” Read more here. Some other items of note: Just 3% of more than 800,000 heat complaints citywide about private buildings resulted in violations, according to a new report from Comptroller Brad Lander office, which also found that the buildings with complaints from tenants in private buildings were most common in the Northwest and South Bronx, Northern Manhattan and Central Brooklyn. “I spent years looking at these factories and gas tanks without any understanding,” says Elisha Fye, 70, who has lived his whole life in Brooklyn’s Cooper Park Houses, wedged between two historic superfund sites and still battling industrial giants. From our friends at Capital B, a story on how public housing residents say their debilitating health problems are caused by industrial pollution — but it’s nearly impossible to prove. Revealed by an inquiry into the death of subway motorman Garret Goble in a Manhattan track fire three years ago, the MTA has been flagged for failing to re-train workers on how to use so-called escape hoods during emergencies. It’s that time again: Community boards are looking for new members. What’s it like to serve … and what do those local boards really do, anyway? We’ve updated our guide on what it’s like to be a community board member for 2023, with links to applications in four of the five boroughs. See how New York City’s doing with our newsroom’s economic recovery tracker. - For the latest local numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations, testing rates and more, check our coronavirus tracker.
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