Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Sanitation'
September 8, 2008
You'll probably want to avoid eating dinner during tomorrow night's episode of Inside Edition, which promises some pretty revolting video of street vendors doing all sorts of unsavory things with their hands while on the job. According to the press release, the show's "Investigative Unit" caught a number of New York food vendors on tape exhibiting some "unsafe food handling practices." These include:One food vendor touching his bare feet with his fingers between his......
Continue Reading "Food Vendors Caught Picking Noses, Touching Toes"July 16, 2008
The city has arrested six sanitation workers and suspended over fifty others after busting them for using department trucks to collect and sell scrap metal on the side. The Sun reports that after a worker was seen using his sanitation truck compactor to “break open an air-conditioner, giving him access to a metal part and in the process releasing ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon into the air,” investigators strategically placed CFC-free air-conditioners along collection routes in Queens, with......
Continue Reading "Sanitation Workers Busted for Scrap Selling"
