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| Parade Clean-up with Leaf Blowers |
Nov. 1, 1999 |
According to the New York Daily News, 175 blowers were used in the post-parade clean-up.
The so-called Canyon of Heros is called so because of the narrow streets and tall buildings. Running all those leaf blowers along the parade route was like having a lawn mower race in at the bottom of a deep, narrow canyon. You can imagine the fumes and noise from all those two-stroke engines.
Check out this happy sanitation worker with a lawn mower engine strapped to his back.
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| Ever Wonder How They Remove Toilet Paper from Trees? |
Nov. 1, 1999 |
Here's a guy getting paid to remove toilet paper from trees at City Hall.
Here's a quote from a New York Newsday article (10-25-98) on last year's Yankees parade (emphasis mine):
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"We've been here since early," said Parks Department pruner Bill Conlon, who, perched in the bucket of an orange cherry picker, was delicately pulling toilet tissue off of a tree at City Hall Park. "It's been very tedious to take the stuff off. But it's a nice day out. And it's some good overtime."
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| Enjoying Some Good Overtime |
Nov. 1, 1999 |
Here are some stats for Sanitation at the Yankees parade:
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Total sanitation workers: 609 |
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Manual sweepers: 136 |
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Mechanical brooms: 48 |
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Power blowers: 175 |
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Estimated garbage: 45-50 tons |
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Estimated cost of cleanup: $200,000 |
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Source: New York Daily News (10-30-99) The Parade by the Numbers |
Here is a stat for Police costs at the Yankees parade:
[Police Commissioner] Safir said the overtime tab [for police] would be about $250,000, adding that some of the cost might be picked up by corporate sponsors of the parade.
Source: New York Daily News (10-30-99) 5,000 Cops Keep Peace
I'll update cost data as it comes in... Reported costs for previous parades have been much higher than these estimates.
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