The New York City Department of Sanitation, or DSNY, is the city agency responsible for garbage collection, recycling collection, street cleaning, and snow removal. It employs a uniformed force of unionized sanitation workers (Local 831 USA of the Teamsters) in New York City. Like the rest of New York's uniformed forces, they have a nickname: "New York's Strongest." The section of Worth Street between Centre and Baxter Streets in Manhattan is named "Avenue of the Strongest" in their honor.
The New York City Department of Sanitation is the largest sanitation department in the world, with 7,899 uniformed sanitation workers and supervisors, 2,041 civilian workers, 2,230 collection trucks, 275 specialized collection trucks, 450 street sweepers, 365 salt and sand spreaders, 298 front end loaders, 2,360 support vehicles, and handles over 12,000 tons of residential and institutional refuse and recyclables a day. Under Commissioner John J. Doherty, New York City's streets are reportedly the cleanest that they have been in over 30 years.
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