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  • The City is Committed to Protecting Your Privacy During the Coronavirus Crisis

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    Taking coronavirus calls at 311 (photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)


    Your personal information is just that: personal. Even during a pandemic, it’s important that we make sure that New Yorkers’ privacy is protected to the maximum extent possible, both during the emergency and in anticipation of the aftermath once the pandemic resolves.

    As New York City’s Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), I am dedicated to protecting New Yorkers’ privacy. I lead a team of dedicated lawyers who staff the Mayor’s Office of Information Privacy and work year-round to safeguard

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  • Combatting New York's Enduring Quality-of-Life Problem: Litter

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    DSNY Commissioner Garcia (photo: @NYCSanitation)


    New York is safer and more prosperous than it's been in years, but the city still can't figure out how to stop people from trashing streets with litter.

    Despite a focus on quality of life issues, City Hall has made limited progress in dealing with a problem that has plagued mayors since the days when animals roamed Broadway. Even a small army of workers from the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), business improvement districts, and the Doe Fund still can't fully police 6,000 miles of city streets and more than 27,000

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  • Bushwick Students Give City's Street Cleanliness Scorecards An Incomplete

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    Bushwick photos by local students


    Walk down a typical street in Greenwich Village or SoHo. It's likely to be clean of debris and garbage — in fact, there's a 93 percent chance the sidewalk is "acceptably clean," according to city records.

    Now walk down a typical street in Bushwick. According to the City, it's not all that different — there's an 89 percent chance that the sidewalk is clean.

    To some young Bushwick residents, that's a finding that doesn't match reality.

    Fed up with having to walk around discarded soda bottles, plastic bags, and

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