Bins help keep buildings, streets clean, residents say. Building supervisor Cesar Jimenez says one Empire bin is enough to ...

These drivers are in for rat-ical change. West Harlem has become the first neighborhood in the United States to have all of ...

The buildings in West Harlem, many which were part of a pilot program last year, are the first structures larger than 31 ...

Large residential buildings in West Harlem are now required to put trash in large bins on the street instead of in piles on ...

The area now has all of its trash containerized in the city's new Empire Bins, which are serviced by new, automated ...

An area of Harlem is the first to have its trash fully containerized and picked up by a fleet of new $500,000 garbage trucks.

Fighting back against rats and garbage, the installation of 'Empire Bins' makes Manhattan Community Board 9 the first neighborhood to have trash fully containerized.

NYC's West Harlem now has fully containerized trash collection, helping to reduce rat sightings and improve cleanliness.

The department’s new “Empire Bins” are now set up outside eight uptown schools, where they’re used to collect compost, recycling and garbage. By the start of June, officials plan to ...

“They look out-of-place here,” said Marcus Delgado, 52, of the city Department of Sanitation, “Empire Bins” gobbling up parking spots along Amsterdam Avenue near 152nd Street. “They are ...