New invention to starve rats: CITIBINs made to be impenetrable
Bins officially dedicated on Brooklyn Heights Promenade with a bag of garbage on Friday
January 8, 2024 Mary Frost
Dedicating the new CITIBINs, from left: Jamey Hewitt, Parks Deputy Chief of Operations; Tannise Palmer, Parks regional manager for West Brooklyn; Councilmember Lincoln Restler; BHA Executive Director Lara Birnback; and BHA President Koren Volk. Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Heights Promenade will be even more eye-pleasing — and less ratty — in 2024, thanks to the installation of multiple new CITIBIN trash containers.
The modular bins were officially dedicated at a ceremony on Friday as Koren Volk, president of the Brooklyn Heights Association, and Councilmember Lincoln Restler jointly chucked a bag of garbage into one at the Promenade entrance at Montague Street.
The lockable, rat-proof bins made of aluminum will hold the garbage collected from the historic walkway by Parks Department employees at the end of every day, according to Tannise Palmer, Parks regional manager for West Brooklyn.