The news came as a shock to NYC residents.
Despite theliteral hills of garbagethat seat on every NYC block during trash pickup sidereal day , a raw report from the Mayor ’s Office is claim that only 1.5 % of the city ’s streets are considered " nasty . "
If you ’re raise your eyebrows in shock , you ’re not alone . New Yorkers themselves as well as New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli have been lead aback by the metropolis ’s report for the 2022 financial year , enunciate that the metrics used by theDepartment of Sanitationto evaluate NYC ’s cleanliness are obscure and not accurate .
The Scorecard program , which is the system used by the metropolis to rate NYC ’s filth levels , has been in piazza for decades . Inspectors are sent to visit the streets every calendar month , and are then tax to rate their cleanliness from " acceptably blank " to " smutty . " DiNapoli , who wrote a 2020 audit criticise the Department ’s Scorecard program , claims the sanitisation section ’s " sole carrying out measure for supervise the sanitisation trading operations . " The section disputed the claim , saying that it relies on other source of selective information as well , Gothamistreports .
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The same audited account flagged further issues with the programme . DiNapoli point out that inspection are done by parkway - by , which affects the accuracy of the reports . The view , for example , might be obscured by parked elevator car or vans , and a clear sight of the closure ’s conditions can not be valuate without further on - site review .
Additionally , the memo foreground that until last year , when the Scorecard program update its methodological analysis , the system only take into account the same 6,899 auction block since the ' 70s , which prevented newly deteriorated or newly developed areas to be considered and , therefore , to press in the city ’s fair cleanliness levels . The fact that the program does n’t consider 311 charge is also an issue since pavement litter charge make up one third of the 311 sanitation complaint , allot to David Schaeffer , the audit coach for the state ’s comptroller ’s office .
Vincent Gragnani , a voice of the Department of Sanitation , said in response that the cleanliness schedule is working , but did n’t at once speak the comptroller ’s observations . NYC residents do n’t harmonise with the department ’s criterion , either .
" Those number do not add up , no , " one resident physician toldFox 5 New York .
