Office of Borough President James P. Molinaro
Staten Island, New York
Borough President’s “Clean Team” completes operation along SI Expressway service road in Emerson Hill
Molinaro thanks Department of Transportation and other City agencies for assistance in traffic safety clean-up to make service roads passable for pedestrians
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Continuing his dual initiatives of keeping Staten Island the cleanest borough while improving traffic safety, Borough President James P. Molinaro’s “Clean Team” has completed an operation along a Staten Island Expressway service road in Emerson Hill, where overgrown weeds and trash made the sidewalks impassable to pedestrians.
Joining forces with the City Department of Transportation, the Borough President’s “Clean Team,” which consists of staffers from his office and inmates from the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, cleared weeds and trash for four hours yesterday from the sidewalks and curbs of the Narrows Road South/Clove Road service road, from Clove Road and Emerson Drive to Richmond Road. They returned this morning to complete the task.
“This is a public safety issue because the overgrown, high weeds that extended out onto the littered sidewalks forced pedestrians to step into the roadway, posing a traffic hazard,” said Molinaro. “I would like to thank the Department of Transportation and the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility for their assistance in coordinating this clean-up to help make our roadways safer for pedestrians and motorists alike.
“Due to limited time and resources, my Clean Team can only address a few specific locations,” Molinaro said. “So I would like to remind property owners and City agencies that they have the responsibility of maintaining their frontages and need to cut their vegetation and remove litter.”
The Borough President would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the New York City Police Department and the Department of Sanitation as part of his “Clean Team” operations.
August 1, 2011