There were also 14 workers driving street sweepers (mechanical broom operators).
Only one of them was universally welcomed, and yesterday it came to an end, with a whir of the mechanical broom and the itchy summons finger of the traffic enforcement agent.
"It was like a tornado in front of my window," said Kerry Scully, who joined the Sanitation Department in August and was spending her first New Year's driving a mechanical broom.
She swept Antonio with a broom when he passed; she threw water on him as she washed the floors.
4. The OneSweep rubber broom, when dry, removes lint, dust or dog and cat hairs from rugs.
However, for most herbicide treatments, the application rate had more impact on injury rating than the age of broom when treated, and no interaction was found between the application rate and the age of broom (Table 4).
Thompson (1988) obtained 88%% control of broom when fluroxypyr was applied at 0.40 kg ae ha−1 in Austrian pine (Pinus nigra Arnold).
Wield the hoe's blade in fluid sweeping motions like a broom when targeting weeds.
Street cleaning, with its accompanying parking restrictions, has been a part of city life since 1950, when the first sweepers with mechanical brooms were introduced on the Lower East Side, replacing hand brooms and water trucks that sprayed the streets.
The city began suspending its parking laws for matters of faith around 1950, when the Department of Sanitation bought its first mechanical brooms, and announced that drivers were going to have to move their cars every morning to make way for them.
