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[VIDEO] Celebrating The City Cleanup Corps with STOMP

2021-08-06T12:00:00-04:00

The City Cleanup Corps is putting New Yorkers to work and cleaning up our streets. (And occasionally they help STOMP put on a show in Times Square.) NYC is coming back, baby!

Head to nyc.gov to learn more about the City Cleanup Corps.

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[WATCH] Here's What Doing Laundry In New York City Looks Like During A Pandemic

2020-07-09T12:00:00-04:00

Doing laundry in New York is a hellish experience, ask any New Yorker. Celsious, an eco-friendly laundromat in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, wanted to change that.

Founded by sisters Corinna and Theresa Williams, Celsious aimed to offer something different: a community gathering space where you can grab an espresso with a bite of delicious pastries in the morning, join for a movie screening in the evening, all while doing your laundry using environmentally friendly cleaning products and energy-efficient washing machines. Unfortunately, like with many other businesses, COVID-19 disrupted the sisters’ plans.

As an essential service, Celsious has remained open throughout the state’s social distancing orders. Bustle caught up with Corinna and Theresa as they were reopening Celsious to regular hours, on the heels of a curfew put in place by the NYC mayor’s office. NYC curfew lasted a week following nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism.

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[VIDEO] Here's What the MTA's Bus Cleaners Do To Keep New York City Buses Clean

2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00

A bus cleaner's job is a lot more than just sweeping buses. Find out more about what they do.

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[WATCH] What Exactly Does the MTA's Mobile Wash Team Do?

2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00

The MTA's Mobile Wash Team works hard to help clean the subway system. Find out more about what they do.

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Local Comedian Tries To Clean a Dirty New York City Subway Platform by Hand, Again

2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00

Comedian and Gothamist video editor/producer Jeff Seal recently went out to the Brooklyn High Street station in Brooklyn Heights, again, to see if he could actually clean the dirty, grimy subway platform using household cleaning products and a bit of elbow grease. Check it out!

In early February, we ventured out to see if we could clean a small section of a subway platform in a way that, at the very least, left us with a satisfying before & after image. Not fully satisfied, however, filmmaker Jeff Seal set out on an even bigger cleaning project, returning to the High Street station in Brooklyn in a Hazmat suit, and testing out several other products.

Check out the accompanying article to read more about what transpired.

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[WATCH] Comedian Tries To Clean a Dirty New York City Subway Platform by Hand

2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00

Comedian and Gothamist video editor/producer Jeff Seal recently went out to the Brooklyn High Street station in Brooklyn Heights to see if he could actually clean the dirty, grimy subway platform using household cleaning products and a bit of elbow grease. Check it out!

So there we were, looking down at our chosen section of platform, hoping to reveal what was at the bottom of these layers of grime. We guessed the first coating was from the '70s, at least, but this could go back as far as 1933 when the station first opened. The dirt is really baked in there—so much so that the surface seemed impenetrable. No amount of elbow grease seemed like it was going to make a dent, but Jeff got down there and gave it a shot.

Check out the accompanying article to read more about what transpired.

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[VIDEO] Here's Why a Tiny Dirt Patch Was Left on the Ceiling of Grand Central Terminal

2019-02-06T15:30:00-05:00

If you've ever spent some time marveling at the Main Concourse inside Grand Central Terminal, you may have noticed a small rectangular dark patch high on the ceiling. At first glance, it looks like it could be a vent, or panel of some sort, but it is really just an uncleaned patch of dirt that tells a bit of history about the building. Watch this short video from Gothamist to learn why.

On the constellation-filled ceiling of Grand Central's main concourse, there's a small dark patch at the edge where the mural and marble meet, in the northwest corner. That dark patch is an homage of sorts to this dirty ol' town—it was darkened through decades of exposure to a few pollutants, but mainly cigarette smoke. When the ceiling was finally cleaned in the mid-1990s, a decision was made to leave this small 9" x 18" rectangle untouched. The result is the city's most satisfying before & after.

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Here's How World Trade Center Memorial Workers Protect the Names of the Dead

2018-09-11T14:00:00-04:00

Visited and touched by thousands of people on a daily basis, the 2,996 etched names along the 9/11 Memorial Museum fountains need regular maintenance to retain their impact. In this video from the New York Daily News, meet the team that is responsible for making the names look their best, and see how they do it.

Workers spend the night repairing the National September 11 Memorial, armed with blowtorches and brushes.

Check out the accompanying article for more.

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Watch the Giant Blue Whale Get Its Annual Scrub-Down at the American Museum of Natural History

2018-04-25T11:30:00-04:00

The Giant Blue Whale at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the museum's most popular and well-known exhibits. Every year, the massive whale gets a scrub down, and it's pretty interesting to watch. This year's cleaning was yesterday, April 24th, and of course there was a live-stream. Check it out above!

Tune in as we vacuum our blue whale model in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life! To learn more about the marvelous, alien world of the ocean, visit Unseen Oceans at the American Museum of Natural History

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Here's How MTA Workers Clean and Maintain Grand Central Terminal's Extra Large Chandeliers

2017-09-18T11:30:00-04:00

Grand Central Terminal is the busiest train station in the country, yet the architectural marvel is still maintained to look as it did when it opened in 1913. To do this, the terminal has regular cleaning and maintenance all throughout, including out-of-the-way object like these giant chandeliers, seen here lowered and being maintained by MTA workers.

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