Allen Street Gets Some Spring Cleaning Help
If you notice that Allentown is a bit cleaner today, you may want to thank the group that actually got the job done. A number of people from Erie County Department of Social Services' Work for Relief Program (headed up by Supervisor Mike Rinallo) spent the better part of the day sweeping up the neighborhood. The hours of community service go towards receiving benefits.
Before working on Allen this week, workers spent time on Niagara Street and Grant Street. "It doesn't stop there," Mike told me. "During the winter we are shoveling out senior citizen's walkways and we're also active with planting community gardens and graffiti removal. If there are community events that are in need of help, we can also help in that way. We work all year long to help with community projects. And the group can vary from just a few to a bunch."
If you are interested in having Mike come to your commercial district or may have a community event the needs help with cleaning or sprucing up, give him a call at 716.597.2812 and he'll do his best to help.
Might I suggest Elmwood between Hodge and Utica? That stretch is always a mess.
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FrankyBlueEyes
Are these people unionized......God knows you can't do such cleanup or Volunteering because you will take a union job! They must be union........Sorry to be cynical.....think its great what they are doing. The thing with the Chestnut Ridge Park donation burns me to no end. Every time my broom touches the street area in front of my house (near my curb), I am going to send a bill to both the County and the City for my services!
Anyways, keep up the good work......we need groups (including landlords) to put forth this type of effort more often and also.......START FINING PEOPLE FOR LITTERING........immediate $100 fine and have it escalate up from there.....NO MERCY....there is no reason to litter and get more decorative garbage cans out there......if there isn't enough $, then take an old steel drum and have some school kids do art work on it......ITS THAT EASY!!!
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parkstreetwoman
Thanks to these folks for their hard work! Now if only Allen Street businesses would pitch in and KEEP the sidewalks in front of their businesses tidy!!! Some do a great job -- a tip of the hat to them. But others just let the trash, plastic cups and butts pile up!!!!! Please keep our neighborhood clean.
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InformedOne
Hats off to these youth for conducting this sweep of Allentown. I hope NYS raises the tax on cigarettes and forces more people to quit smoking. Allen Street in particular is disgusting with all the "cancer stick" butts littering the sidewalk in front of the various bars and night clubs. Business owners should be required to put out "cancer stick" butt receptacles and/or sweep the sidewalks in front of their establishments. On rainy days as I walk down Allen Street it smells like a wet ash-tray.
Cancer cowboys (and girls) need to take responsibility for their nasty habit and dispose of cancer stick remains properly. Put them in your pocket or just eat them like stoners do.
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sbrof
great!!!! Allen east could sure use it.. In front of the red jacket - Cathode Ray is pretty grungy right now.
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tonyarmani
FrankyBlue,
You have all the right in the world to be upset. Unions are one of the largest sources of problems and pains for the city. Hopefully County Exec. Collins can take them down for good. Here is the story if anyone is in the dark why you are mad: http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2008/03/31/daily34.html?page=2
Great job Allen st team - the city should donate more brooms and shovels to teams like this, God knows they can't keep the streets clean themselves.
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ArkoWillie
Not sure how this Work for Relief program works, but boy it's nice to see these folks out there cleaning up Allen Street. Way to go!
And I agree with ParkStreetWoman that some of the merchants need to do a lot more to keep the area around their businesses clean. I wish they all would take a cue from Quaker Bonnet (for instance) and be good citizens of the area by cleaning up.
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onestarmartin
As a merchant on Allen, keeping the sidewalks clean is a never ending job. People walking the streets should take some pride and use garbage cans. I Daily watch slobs just drop garbage out of laziness, bad upbringing or just plain ignorance. The trend seems to be bar drunks at night and losers patronizing the "deli's" in the area.
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sbrof
aww, guess that makes me a loser.. darn those deli's for tarnishing my image. I guess my tie and slacks are not enough to pull me from the dregs of loserdome. ;-)
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