Ryan Serhant Partners w/ NYC Dept. of Sanitation This Earth Day

On April 16, Ryan Serhant, founder and CEO of SERHANT. and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York, and his eponymous brokerage partnered with the NYC Department of Sanitation’s Foundation and Make a Change World, an environmental non-profit organization, for a spring cleaning of the streets of Manhattan. Approximately 100 volunteers were in attendance to clean up an area of Manhattan identified by the Department of Sanitation as most in-need: Union Square Park and 14th Street between 4th Avenue and 8th Avenue.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, service provided by the NYC Department of Sanitation has been affected by city-wide budget cuts. During 2020, the Department’s budget was cut by $106 million, and litter basket service was reduced by over 60%. Although baseline funding was restored in March 2021, litter issues remain a concern as NYC pursues recovery.

In addition to helping with clean up efforts, SERHANT. made a sizable donation to the NYC Department of Sanitation’s Foundation. There were nine other SERHANT.-inspired Spring Cleaning events globally last week from Boston to Bali.

The Department of Sanitation collects trash from approximately 25,000 litter baskets across the City, and uses mechanical brooms to sweep the curbs anywhere from one to six times weekly, depending on the street. New Yorkers are reminded to never litter – and that corner baskets are for small items like coffee cups and wrappers, never for household or business trash.

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