More than 700 containers will replace piles of trash bags across Brooklyn Community District 2
Next six districts will receive Empire Bins in 2027, delivering on Mayor Mamdani’s commitment to citywide containerization by the end of 2031
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Gregory Anderson today installed Brooklyn’s first residential Empire Bins, taking a major step toward cleaner streets and sidewalks. The stationary, on-street containers will replace massive piles of trash bags across Brooklyn Community District 2, where installation of more than 700 bins is now underway. Full containerization of the district is expected to be completed by the end of fall.
“Every New Yorker deserves clean streets and sidewalks,” said Mayor Mamdani. “For too long, New Yorkers have had to walk past mountains of trash bags piled high on the curb that offer feasts for rats and stink up our streets. We’re changing that. By containerizing trash, we’re building a cleaner city while making it easier and safer for the hardworking men and women of DSNY to do their job.”
Brooklyn Community District 2 encompasses Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Ferry, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Today marks an important milestone in our efforts to get trash off the street and into sealed, rodent-resistant containers,” said DSNY Commissioner Gregory Anderson. “This is not another pilot. Putting screws in the ground here in Brooklyn marks the beginning of a dramatic transformation of New York City’s streetscape. District by district, we are getting trash bags off the street and delivering the cleaner neighborhoods all New Yorkers deserve.”
Following the model that has been in place for more than a year in West Harlem, DSNY will install Empire Bins outside all buildings with more than 30 units, as well as buildings with 10 to 30 units that have opted into the program.
Businesses and low-density residential buildings, including single-family homes, are already required to put their trash in smaller, wheeled containers known as “wheelie bins.” Medium-density buildings that opt out of the Empire Bin program will also be required to use wheelie bins.
Property managers will access Empire Bins with a key card or smartphone app. Sanitation Workers will service the containers using North America’s first automated side-loading trucks.
Last summer, DSNY deployed roughly 1,100 Empire Bins in Manhattan Community District 9, which includes Hamilton Heights, West Harlem and Morningside Heights. The containers performed well through a particularly cold and snowy winter.
As DSNY installs Empire Bins in BK 2, the agency is planning for the 2027 expansion announced by Mayor Mamdani in April. The next six community districts to receive Empire Bins include:
- Bronx Community District 2: Hunts Point and Longwood
- Bronx Community District 5: University Heights, Mount Hope, Morris Heights and Fordham Heights
- Queens Community District 2: Sunnyside, Hunters Point and Woodside
- Manhattan Community District 2: West Village, SoHo, Little Italy, Greenwich Village and Nolita
- Brooklyn Community District 8: Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Weeksville
- Staten Island Community District 1: North Shore
DSNY expects the 2027 expansion to bring more than 6,500 Empire Bins to more than 3,500 buildings.
The City’s goal is to complete containerization citywide by the end of 2031, delivering a New York City where trash bags are kept off the streets once and for all.
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