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This Artist Goes Around Turning Trash Into Bags of Gold

Posted on June 21, 2016March 26, 2021 by Luisa Rollenhagen

It’s no secret: New York in the summer stinks. Most of the time, that overpoweringly unpleasant smell is coming from the garbage bags whose contents…

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Goodbye Dirty Blvd.? City Steps Up Trash Collection and Graffiti Clean-Up

Posted on February 3, 2016March 26, 2021 by Daniel Maurer

Like Oscar the Grouch, New Yorkers are surly and we live in filth. But things might get a lot less trashy, thanks to a series…

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Bushwick Task Force Aims to ‘Clean Up’ (Literally) Area Plagued By K2

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Nicole Disser

“I have a really high tolerance for people doing stuff on the street,” said G Lucas Crane, a member of the Silent Barn collective. “I’m from…

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