NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as ...

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.

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

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

In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown ... more educated counterparts left the New York City neighborhood in droves. But the tide turned when Percy Sutton, then the Manhattan borough ...