Community Board 11 blasts city over snow removal
Bensonhurst and Bath Beach were treated like second class citizens by New York City this winter, according to officials at Community Board 11, who charged that the Department of Sanitation was slow to plow the white stuff off local streets after major snowstorms.
“This district had a very uneven performance by the Sanitation Department this winter,” Bill Guarinello, the community board’s chairman, told his members at their monthly meeting at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare at 1740 84th St. on March 11. The board represents Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
Guarinello said that after some major snowstorms during the winter of 2014-2015, hardly any sanitation salt spreaders were seen on local streets. Conversely, the Sanitation Dept. threw tons of salt on the streets after minor snow storms that didn’t leave much snow on the ground at all, he said. “Either we got pounded with salt for three inches of snow or we got no salt at all,” he said.