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Borough-based business improvement districts urge funding, warn of timing challenges for containerization mandate
Summary
Representatives of New York City business improvement districts told the sanitation committee they support containerizing curbside commercial trash but warned that procurement, siting and contracting timelines make full compliance by the mandate date unlikely without additional funds and operational flexibility.
Erin Piscopink, co‑chair of the New York City Bridal Association and executive director of the Soho Broadway Initiative, told the City Council sanitation committee that business improvement districts (BIDs) support the city's containerization mandate but face operational and funding hurdles to comply on the proposed timeline.
Piscopink said BIDs provide supplemental sanitation services—"our clean team sweep the sidewalks…
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