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Photos: Cleaning up the Aftermath

“As if a tornado struck, a real smelly and dirty tornado” was the way one passerby described what Eastern Parkway looked like, as an army platoon of city sanitation workers labored throughout the night cleaning up.

Men armed with brooms were not enough, they had leaf blowers and plows, along with street sweepers and garbage trucks, and this year the city employed a new weapon, a bulldozer with jaws to collect the garbage.

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32 Comments

  • Michael Moore

    These blacks are not able to live hearwhy cant we close down this stupid parade let them go to harlem and party there. As much as we do all the days of simchas beis hashoeiva and all the days when we close off the streets doesent come close to what these blacks do here besides the fact that the police give us a hard time to for lag baomer this is unjust and must be stopped ASAP. Why are we quiet when people are intruding and polutting are streets and now we will never have a chance to close them down because of our president who calls himself a “lover of israel” yamach shimo” because he is one them himself.
    May G-d bless us.

  • Sara

    Thank you, NYC Sanitation, for working through the night to give us back our clean streets!

  • just wanna have a clean city

    if everyone would just put their own little thing in the garbage, the city could be a whole lot cleaner.by the way, is thia all from labor day’s parade??

  • oy vi git tzu zein a yid

    the pictures are great..but they dont even touch as to how filthy the streets of holy kan tziva were last night. BH this morning we have our hood back:-)

  • wait!

    wait a sec, we will have our chance at meaking the city filthy the whole of thisrey….

  • ch-er

    look at the difference between our lag ba’omer parade and they’re labor day parade’s aftermaths!

  • gonna throw up

    This is the aftermath of what is called a “cultural” parade..lol! What culture is it???????????????

  • John Do

    “As if a tornado struck, a real smelly and dirty tornado”, that is a VERY RACIST comment to post on this web site… just because the West Indians have a parade throughout eastern pkwy doesn’t make it “smelly” and / or “dirty.” Does anyone complain about things that some others in the Crown Heights community do? I will make sure that this web site will get investigated for racism… I had printed out a copy for my records.

  • that-s disgusting!

    Glad they cleaned it up, it looked really terrible yesterday….
    We don’t leave such a mess after our parades and outdoor events do we? And even if we did, I’m sure the organizers would take care of the cleanup, and not leave it to the city to pick up their garbage…

  • yayaya

    Everyone relax
    We have our things, look at the streets after Simchas torah.

    by percentage they do the same we do, remember we are the minority, and thank god i couldn’t tell that labor day happened this morning

  • goolllgfgyr

    cool pictures maybe they should move thier parade to thier side of the nighborhood who need them here to see them walking around naked

  • Inspiring

    the parade was amazingly great this year… it is always fun…. it t was nice for me to reconnect with my Jewish- Jamaican Heritage with a Jamaican Parade in a Jewish Neighborhood, I even put on Tefillin for the first time in 25 years!!!

  • Moshe

    Crown Heights is a garbage dump. Leave the hyperinflated real estate trap for the civilized world.

  • John Shmith, philosopher

    Why does the West Indian Parade give every racist in Crown Heights the opportunity to jump out of their holes, including the proprietors of this website?

    When half a million people gather on a street there is bound to be lots of garbage. It looks like 770 after Simchas Torah, but on a larger scale. Grow up racist pigs!

  • Derrick Nelson

    a bulldozer with jaws to collect the garbage.
    —-
    They should have taken some two legged garbage to the dump as well.

  • Sensory

    U know, viewing these pics and you could actually begin to smell that familier stench

    the pictures really capture – the smell

  • To John Do (sic)

    John Do (you can’t even spell your “name” properly!) thinks any comment is racist. Let me tell you something, pal. The participants at this parade act like animals. They have no regard for anyone’s property, NO MATTER WHO OWNS IT! Describing the scene as a smelly tornado is polite & doesn’t convey the extent of the filth.

    You see everything as race. Why? This is about abhorrent social behaviors where normally decent people decide to abuse our streets, homes, & gardens because hey, it’s THEIR right. What about OUR RIGHTS? We don’t have any, I suppose..

    Tell me, is it racist to complain when WOMEN use the back of my house or the sidewalk as a public bathroom? I saw that! So did my children. You think THAT IS NORMAL BEHAVIOR??? Is it racist to be concerned about beer being poured over me as I go about my business? That happened!!

    Who mentioned race? Or color? Or religion, ethnic background, tree huggers, Obama, the Queen of England, or anyone else?

    Stop viewing everyone as a racist because we object to the filth this parade generates. And yes, at Simchas Bais Hasoeva the mess is also disgusting & no one cleans it up!

  • sam

    TO JOHN DOE

    nice to be PC BUT:

    I am a witness WITH PHOTOS to a driveway on Eastern Parkway where revelers of all genders are urinatind etc the stench in unbearable and Sanitation will bot go onto private properties to clean up even if they see the dirt from the street

    MR JOHN DOE I WOULD LUVE TO MEET YOU IN COURT

  • Eli

    The cops need to give the tickets to those who behave disgusting: dropping garbage on the street, harassing people, urinating in public etc.

    This is the only way to stop these animals!

    Nothing racist about that!