9 • TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 NEW IMPORT: MORE TRASH Temp Permit Adds L.I. Garbage Trains To Qns. by Robert Pozarycki More garbage than usual is now being imported into Glendale’s Fresh Pond Railyard. The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) authorized last week a “short-term operation” allowing wrapped solid waste bales to be shipped by rail from waste facilities in eastern Long Island to reduce a garbage backlog. “Due to a shortage of available trucking resources, Long Island transfer stations have been unable to keep up with the volume of garbage during this peak season for waste generation,” DEC Commissioner Joe Martens explained in a press release last Thursday, July 17. “To reduce the risk that garbage would go uncollected from residents and businesses, DEC issued a temporary emergency authorization.” Martens stated the agency is also working “cooperatively with the solid waste industry and local governments to find a solution to remove solid waste from eastern Long Island as expeditiously as possible.” The 30-day authorization, Martens noted, came with a set of “operational ‘Men In Blue’ Clean Glendale, Too Pol & Nonprofit Enhance Sanitation Svces. The Doe Fund, a nonprofit group that provides supplemental trash pickups and street cleaning to shopping districts across the city, will dispatch crews three days a week to Myrtle Avenue between Cooper Avenue and Fresh Pond Road. City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley and Doe Fund President George McDonald announced the new services during a press conference last Thursday, July 17, at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and 70th Street. For some observers, the extra -SEE GARBAGE ON PG. 53- sanitation services on Myrtle Avenue were much needed. At past meetings, local residents and business owners complained of overflowing public waste baskets and litter-lined sidewalks along the strip. Through $61,800 in funding Crowley allocated in the city’s 2015 fiscal year budget, The Doe Fund’s crews will bring their services not only to Myrtle Avenue but also Grand Avenue in Maspeth between by Robert Pozarycki Much of the Myrtle Avenue shopping strip in Glendale will receive additional sanitation services courtesy of some “men in blue.” -SEE TRASH ON PG. 24- TRIED TO SHOP WITH A HOT CREDIT CARD Police seek the public’s help in finding the man pictured above who is wanted for a recent grand larceny in Ozone Park. Law enforcement sources said the perpetrator attempted to use a stolen credit card to buy a carton of cigarettes from the Rite Aid pharmacy located at 96-02 Rockaway Blvd. at about 11:40 p.m. on May 14. Reportedly, the credit card was stolen ealrier that day from a vehicle parked at the corner of 97th Avenue and 98th Street. The theft was reported to the 102nd Precinct. Anyone with information regarding the suspect’s whereabouts that could prove helpful is asked to contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-577-TIPS; by text message to 274637 (enter information, then the code TIP577); or online at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com. All calls and messages will be kept confidential. ©Times Newsweekly - 2014 - UNIDENT
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