Brooklyn, NY – Greenfield: Give Bloomberg A Shovel To Help Clean The Streets [Video]

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    Brooklyn, NY – Two Council Members in New York City’s hardest snow-hit neighborhoods in Southern Brooklyn are disputing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s assertion at a late afternoon press conference that every street in New York City was plowed.

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    “It’s been many hours after the Mayor’s 7am deadline and our streets remain unplowed. I don’t know how the Mayor can sleep tonight knowing that 80 hours after the storm ended the streets of thousands of his citizens are not passable,” said an exasperated Greenfield. “If the Mayor can’t get Sanitation to do the job, he should grab a shovel and come down here to Brooklyn to clear the streets that he promised would be cleaned.”

    Greenfield and Williams, who serve in neighboring districts, have been vocal critics of the Mayor’s mishandling of the so-called “Bloomberg Blizzard” since Monday afternoon, when it became apparent that the administration was ignoring their respective Southern Brooklyn districts in favor of cleaning other districts primarily in Manhattan.

    “The Mayor is either severely misinformed or lying. He is claiming to have plowed streets that were not plowed,” said Williams. “I’m shocked that the Mayor can get on national TV and make false claims about his failure to clean our streets. My constituents, including the disabled and seniors, are stuck in their homes tonight while the Mayor glides through the streets of Manhattan. It’s disgusting.”

    At the press conference Greenfield suggested that the Mayor should come down to Brooklyn with a shovel, and help clean the streets.

    Watch below the press conference. Credit Shimon Gifter


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    13 years ago

    I’d like to see BLOOMBERG and the SANITATION HEAD take a walk thru Boro Park to see that many streets have NOT BEEN CLEANED AT ALL and are full of ICED DOWN SNOW – impossible to drive by or walk without skidding.

    Don’t give him a shovel – JUST FIRE HIM just like Reagan did to the traffic controllers that went on strike.

    Yisroel
    Yisroel
    13 years ago

    David your on target! Bloomberg is a Mayor in a snow storm without a shovel. It is like being stuck in a conoe without a paddle.

    Yisroel
    Yisroel
    13 years ago

    We must keep the pressure up. It is a long winter and there may be more snow storms. We can’t let this happen again! NY is behind you David!

    mememe
    mememe
    13 years ago

    The streets in the 30’s have not been plowed. Is any one helping us? I called 311 yesterday evening no one came down to plow yet. The streets are impassable and cars keep getting stuck.

    lummer-redden
    lummer-redden
    13 years ago

    Although I agree with Mr. Greenfield, I think his New York has had enough of his rhetoric. I think the mayor got your message loud and clear!

    yeedle
    yeedle
    13 years ago

    I think its a big mistake for boro park to bash the mayor so harshly even if the mayor is 100 percent wrong
    The mayor is known to take revenge of those who start up with him
    I can see hikind bashing the mayor after all he is in the state and needs no favors of the mayor not to mention the fact hat they hate each other for a very long time
    But greenfield hasn’t delivered yet for boro park noting besides press releases how would be able to bring something to us when the mayor will have a bad heart on him

    lazer12004@yahoo.com
    13 years ago

    where is council man BRAD LANDER

    alter
    alter
    13 years ago

    Its time to stop the bomb throwing. It almost seems that Greenfeld has a vandatte against Bloomberg. Stubburn as he is he still is the mayor and you have to respect him. BTW when there was a blackout in Queens one summer

    alter
    alter
    13 years ago

    He responded the same way, people were without aircondition and food and the local councilman (Eric Joya) was requesting help but Bloombergs cohorts pushed him aside.

    Yisroel
    Yisroel
    13 years ago

    I think my wife is right when she says that the Mayor’s main concern right now is for the New Year’s celebration at Times Square . Over a million people come to NY for this event annually. Her friend, who lives in Manhattan told her that this week Fifth Ave in Manhattan was packed with tourists and shoppers. The mayor has always cared more about tourists than the residents of this city. This is the main reason my wife feels that all of the resources were sent to clear Manhattan because the tourists need to get to Times Square and that the New Year’s celebration is watched by over one hundred million people on TV around the world which is a great adverisement to attract tourists to come to NY. Once New Years is over then the Mayor will be free to send help to Boro Park. This theory seems to make sense. What do the rest of you think?

    13 years ago

    Way over the top. This is like Saturday Night Live Episode.

    13 years ago

    Ironic how they nice flowing traffic all around them. I was waiting for Mayor Nagin moment…”Mr Bloomberg you just dont care about Black and Jewish People”. There’s ways to do things. This aint the way.

    Yaakov2
    Yaakov2
    13 years ago

    According to the law, Bloomberg CAN be impeached by the Governor of NY.

    Hikind can help persuade the Governor to Impeach Bloomberg
    .

    Smokey
    Smokey
    13 years ago

    I fully empathize with these two councilmen, but why did they hold their press conference against a backdrop of fast moving traffic behind them? Why couldn’t they have held their press conference against a backdrop of one of their neighborhoods’ clogged streets? They said one thing, but the traffic behind them said the opposite.

    jerrygold
    jerrygold
    13 years ago

    Bloomberg has one obligation and that is to fire the whole brass of the Sanitation department. They staged a protest that is tantamount to blackmail! It’s the heads of the Sanitation department that have to go! And if they had any sense of decency they would give in their resignation.

    yaakov doe
    Member
    yaakov doe
    13 years ago

    The Councilmember with Greenfield in Jumaane Williams from the 45th District. Recently elected, he seems quite good and aware of our community’s needs. His appearance is deceiving.

    13 years ago

    David , it seems we can’t even have access to our hydrants , at this time since they are, all piled up the snow on it, do we really need a big space for the fire trucks, have you ever seen by a fire , the truck parked by the hydrant not to cause a grid lock ? All they do pull in to the block and make a short stop , not even thinking of traffic, or other drivers, you are invited to follow them and see it your self

    13 years ago

    To #1 - It was a mistake for Reagan to have fired the thousands of air traffic controllers in 1981. The system has still not completely recovered from that firing. We lost many good, and experienced personnel, as a result of Reagan’s vindictiveness. When the Sanitation Dept., went on strike in 1968, they were not fired; when the Transit workers went on strike in 1957, 1966 and 1980, they were not fired; when the bridge workers went on strike in 1971, they were not fired; when the cops had a work slowdown in 1971, they were not fired, but they were fined.

    lol
    lol
    13 years ago

    How come Charlie Hall not out here defending bloomberg his liberal soul mate!!

    JohnSmith
    JohnSmith
    13 years ago

    poor management by Bloomberg

    13 years ago

    To #24 - Not true; the Transport Workers Union held a brief strike in only a few years ago, and their leaders were jailed.

    Mosrul
    Mosrul
    13 years ago

    “kids are walking for miles to get to and from school”—-there’s a school bus RIGHT behind you!!!, Ocean Parkway looks nice and clean… what is this REALY about??? hmmmmm

    BoruchN
    BoruchN
    13 years ago

    Imagine if this snow storm had been (G-d forbid) a terrorist attack?
    There would have been ‘overkill.’
    Government failure.