With all due respect, we need street sweeping on Washington Street in Stonybrook/Egleston FAR worse than Centre Street. I have the pics documenting it. Years of broken glass and detritus litters the sidewalks and gutters from Green down to Brookley. Dare I even mention the BAGS of scratch tickets, blunt and cig cellophanes, and trash dropped by Hatoff's customers which I've gathered from my yard and gardens?? Washington Street in JP needs to stop being given the $*# end of the stick.

Good point, Michael. The street sweepers might focus on other business districts in JP, but it's just too early to tell. The business owners of the community have targeted Centre St. mainly because the members of this association (not all, but most) own businesses in and around Centre St. Also, this area likely has the most foot traffic. Still, it is a good idea to let Boston DPW know where the street sweeping is most needed in the coming months.

Thanks for your observation Michael, I too have been advocating for better street cleaning services along Washington St and the side streets in that area (notably Forest Hills). For the mechanized sweepers to work, the cars must be moved. Simple as that. Other parts of the city don't seem to have this problem. Brighton does this every other week. Why is Washington St in JP so neglected? Some concerted attention to this problem might have an impact. Louise

South Street after the Harvest and Fiore's all the way to Forest Hills could use a regular sweeping. There are tons of bags of chips, butts, plastic bottles etc. Gross.

How about trash cans and regular emptying of them?
My yard is full of crap blown down the street from Centre Street.

This issue at least in due part is people.

Speaking as someone who suffers daily from the, literally, off-hand attitude of Hatoff's customers, while trash receptacles may help, if people continue to treat the ground as a garbage can, (mostly I presume, because they don't live here) there is no solution in sight. I'm an cusping into an "old guy", so as a child in the 70's, there were many ad dollars put toward awareness of littering with a small "l", and Pollution with a capital "P" in the crest and wake of a burgeoning environmental movement.

Woodsy the Owl's friendly anthropomorphic reminder to "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute". The iconic TV ad of the Native American brave canoeing up a garbage choked waterway, past industrial stacks spewing greenhouse gas (or worse), to finally shed a tear as some freeway passerby chucked a bag of fast food garbage at his feet. Powerful stuff at the time,

Where are the ads, and the admonition, nee, the SHAME we used to feel, and should still, at this (admittedly benign), behavior?

I was fortunate to visit Paris after college, and aside from the old world wonderment, I was particularly struck at how every evening, shop keepers, after mopping their floors, poured the wash water on the sidewalk in front of their establishments, and scrubbed the walk to the gutter, readying it for the next day's commerce.

Businesses on Centre/ South, and Washington would to well to take ownership of their stretch in the same spirit on a daily basis. It only takes a few minutes, and we might not be having this conversation, nor wondering if the city will perhaps have funds to do what the citizenry can do for itself.

If you don't want to pay taxes, then pick up a broom.

I should note that I put my money where my mouth is. I served as neighborhood coordinator for the Stonybrook Neighborhood "Boston Shines" clean-up effort last spring, and spent half a day sweeping glass and trash up on Kenton from Hatoff's on Washington down to Dungarven, and to Williams, especially in front of Doyle's, and it's dodgy neighbor on the corner of Washington and Gartland. A resident of said property even headed out and looked at us askance as we cleaned up the sidewalk in front of their home...

More personal responsibility, less lazy expectations.