A $14.5 million makeover will clean up New York City’s trashy side, Mayor Eric Adams said.

Adams unveiled “Get Stuff Clean”, a (literal) sweeping effort to clean more than 1,000 neglected areas across the city.

“America’s biggest city is going to be America’s cleanest city,” he said. “We’re investing more than $14 million this fiscal year alone to participate in the largest cleanup effort in decades.”

More than 200 new sanitation workers will be added to cleaning efforts across the city, the cleaning efforts will focus on streets, trash on the sidewalk, bridges and fighting against rats.

A crackdown on illegal dumping will also unfold with new camera enforcement, the mayor said.

“We are going directly into these areas to get them clean and keep them clean,” he said. “This is not a one and done.”

(picture: sam larussa source: patch.com)