Adi Talwar
To walk through the tunnel that leads to the subway entrance at Bedford Park Boulevard under the Grand Concourse is to tread a carpet of trash.
Sure, shopkeepers and landlords sometimes fail to keep sidewalks clean. But it’s the corners of the borough that belong to no one in particular where garbage seems a permanent condition.
From Boston to Portland and in places like Vancouver and Sydney, local governments are taking aggressive steps to prevent development that uproots people of limited means.
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