Throughout the month of Tishrei, we as Crown Heights residents are honored to host thousands of guests from all over the world who spend Yom Tov in the “Daled Amos” of the Rebbe.
Crown Heights is our home, and the simple fact remains that our local sanitation department is unable to maintain the cleanliness our streets deserve, resulting in the sad reality we have come to expect: Streets filled with filth and garbage!
For the 2nd year, local activist Sam Stern has set up the beautiful initiative of having private cleaning regularly conducted on our streets throughout this busy month and restore the beauty and prestige our Crown Heights deserves.
“If we want clean streets and a beautiful “Shchunah”, we as a community must take matters into our own hands,” says Stern.
“We need your help, and we encourage you to show your support for this initiative by visiting https://raisethon.com/keepchclean.”
Funds raised will be overseen by the following community activists:
Mr. Sam Stern
Mr. Ari Minkowitz
Rabbi Moshe Pinson
yes 100% agree!!!
This is very a important campaign. Thank you Sam for making this happen!
The stores that have rotting food making up most of their garbage should use a very generous amount of disinfectant/ bleach to kill the super horrible smells that their garbage produces. Just like you clean your own garbage cans, these containers must be cleaned. During the warm weather – which includes Tishrei – it is truly sickening & very disrespectful – and the smells bring the animals.
Fantastic initiative! Thank you so very much!!!!
This is the second year i noticed that if people do not have trash cans (kingston and eastern parkway particularly), then trash is just dropped on the ground.
It is a constant battle for the cleaners and could be quite helpful. Of course, then we would need someone to empty the trash cans.
Today in white daveing mincha the guys making dollars let around 35-40 Israeli girls into the main men section while 770 was full of men and bichurim with out telling or asking anyone
Please get a dumpster for outside the jcm and 770 –
It is extremely ugly to pass there with all the garbage
Thank you
While it’s great to see people take action to fix something wrong. We do need to step back and take a look at the problem and see if this is something taking money from the public is fair or even fair to ask. It is no secret in the Jewish retail industry that Crown Heights (Kingston ave) is the best location and has the highest gross sales. With Tishre , multiple Pigeshas, daily tours, men’s kinus, ladies kinus, יא ניסן ג תמוז, please cry me a river. The stores legally and ethically have the obligation to keep the front of… Read more »
Yes they should do it but since they don’t, someone else has to take the initiative otherwise the area will be unclean
Maybe if every fundraiser and sale didn’t put up pole signs and windshield flyers, there would be a lot less garbage to clean up.
What is being done about the rats?
Why aren’t people taking accountability and cleaning up after themselves?
Why should we allow this to continue?
Don’t know Reb Sam personally, however I admire this initiative that he’s taken. The Rebbe’s neighborhood deserves to look stately, not c”v the opposite. Thank you!
I wholeheartedly commend this initiative! When I visited Crown Heights in January I had such a good time, I was thinking of moving there. But the garbage!! Unsightly piles of bags in the streets, which no doubt smell in the warmer months…more frequent garbage collection is needed. Shkoyach to the people trying to make a difference.
It was pleasure to walk down Kingston Ave. today! Thank you very much.
The store owners should feel the responsibility to do this kind of cleaning. If it’s too much for them to keep up with because of the huge number of people, bli ayin hara, who come for yom tov, then they should be very happy to donate generously to Mr. Stern’s laudable project. After all, it’s obvious that the stores are B”H a lot busier than usual during Tishrei, which inevitably results in a lot more street traffic, which, in turn, causes a lot more trash in the streets, particularly in front of the stores. By the way, speaking of storekeepers’… Read more »