[NYguy]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

Is there any plan to eventually clear that street of the garbage trucks? I can't imagine marketing high-end apartments/condos when the residents would have to smell that
on an ongoing basis.

Hopefully they will soon have a home in the "tower o garbage" which is nearing completion...


http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...rts_rising.php

Tower O' Garbage Nearly Complete; Salt Shed Starts Rising

January 28, 2015
by Jessica Dailey






They had been fighting over the garage for years, there was once a proposed skyscraper on one of the sites hear the Hudson Yards...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/ny...16garbage.html

By JOSEPH BERGER
November 15, 2009


The city, proudly defending what it says is a congenial design that won approval by the City Council and the city’s Public Design Commission, argues that it has no choice.
Under a 2005 settlement with Friends of Hudson River Park, it has until 2013 to move garbage trucks serving three community boards off an eight-acre peninsula on the
Hudson River at Gansevoort Street. The only practical place to consolidate them would be the garage on Spring Street, it says.

Matthew Lipani, a spokesman for the Department of Sanitation, said in an e-mailed statement that the alternative proposed by community groups would require finding
and acquiring another site for a garage for the trucks serving the third community board — a Midtown district between 59th and 14th Streets. That would delay
vacating Gansevoort and end up costing more than the city’s proposal, he said.

The opponents have tried to propose other sites for the trucks of that third district, the Midtown community board, including a riverside space at 29th Street that was
originally condemned. That site has since been acquired by Joseph B. Rose, a former chairman of the City Planning Commission, who wants to build a 66-story hotel there.