The bag was discovered in front of 251 East 119th Street, just west of Second Avenue, about 8 a.m. by a maintenance worker sweeping the sidewalk.
I asked a maintenance person sweeping something into a long-handled dustpan, "Who would you say is the most famous person ever to come from the Marcy Houses?" She answered, "Jay-Z," with no pause, as if the name were her own.
"What has been done since is minor maintenance work; sweeping leaves, cleaning gullies, etc," she said.
But the doors were shut and the courtyard was empty, save for a maintenance worker sweeping the steps.
Due to furloughs and the decision not to fill vacant positions, services such as sweeping, maintenance, trash pickup, restroom cleaning will be reduced.
They are filled with inert gas to prevent corrosion, and require no mechanical cooling systems; David J. Foss, an engineer here who supervised their loading, said maintenance consisted mostly of inspecting them and sweeping the leaves off the pad.
Even patrician Newport Beach, next door to Costa Mesa, was outsourcing its parking-meter program, its street sweeping, and half of its park maintenance.
He carries a broom, because sweeping the ring is one of his maintenance duties at the gym.
Participants undertook work related to grave digging, street sweeping, road construction, horticulture, sewage construction, and maintenance of electrical cables.
As part of the bargain, Oyster Bay agreed to assume the maintenance of 9.8 miles of road the county had been sweeping and plowing, saving the county about $132,000 a year.
