The NYCHA project is the first residential pneumatic trash system in the United States in nearly 50 years, since Roosevelt Island built one in 1975 as part of the community’s master plan.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Powerful tubes will suck up trash and recycling debris at 60 miles per hour in a new $32 million garbage system being built at the New York City Housing Authority’s Polo Grounds in Harlem.
The tubes will be installed in the Polo Grounds’ original incinerator rooms where trash used to be burned right outside the apartment buildings when they were built in the late 1960s — before the city switched to interior compactors in the 1970s, said Juliette Spertus, an urban designer who specializes in trash management at NYCHA.
Automating garbage collection is expected to give the Polo Grounds staff more time to address other problems at the development. NYCHA Deputy Director Siobhan Watson said the grounds caretakers spend about 60% of their work hours carting garbage around and moving dumpsters on tractors. The pneumatic system is powered by noisy large-capacity fans, which are a potential concern for residents living closest to the terminal building, NYCHA officials acknowledged.
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