1970s New York | Rat Problem | Trash Collectors | Death of a City | This Week | 1975

With the city of New York facing a financial crisis - cuts in public spending has meant public services have suffered. Peter Taylor speaks to a group of New York Binmen about how these cuts have affected not only the cleanliness of the city, but also their day to day like.
First shown: 13/11/1975
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[@hansbambach4854]

New York has the worst rat problem in history now. Their politicians.

[@jennytaylor3324]

Funny the things you miss as times change. I ws born that year, and I miss those old steel dustbins. I have childhood memories of sleepily stirring to the sound of them being clashed and clanged in early morning.

[@StreetDrilla]

i've only seem em in movies. homeless people wouldd crowd around and start a fire in em

[@jennytaylor3324]

@@StreetDrilla Yes!😂

[@justinsteel6360]

Yep me too. I was born in 72 and its a sound i miss in the mornings, now we have trundling plastic wheelie bins. Not the same at all and encouraging waste such a big vessel for rubbish

[@jasonayres]

@@StreetDrilla Blokes with fingerless gloves, standing around the fire, warming their hands.

[@jennytaylor3324]

@@justinsteel6360 Too true. In the 21st c. everything's bigger, but not better!😐

[@harleyrobertson6746]

0:25 always wondered why the cans were always dented in those old TV shows and movies

[@jasonayres]

Like the home of Oscar the Grouch.
He lived in a dented trash can.

[@oscar0006]

​​@@jasonayresyeah😊💚🖤🤎❤️🤍👍🗑️

[@kavorkaa]

52 years later...the same rat problem

[@SedriqMiers]

do like the indians and eat rat burgers.

[@markmacthree3168]

Yes the same problem and the rich shite still orgastrating our world and feathering their nest at our expense.

[@RoadCone411]

52 years?

[@adamwatson2914]

Uh ... yep lol time marching on

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

@@adamwatson2914 46. year I was born

[@345mrse]

Those weren't the only kind of dead rats found in the garbage during that era.

[@yasashii89]

It's a shame new yorkers don't sound like this anymore.

[@jayvonwebb4864]

What do they sound like now

[@OswellMusic]

@@jayvonwebb4864 Pretentious 🤣

[@stuartkelly3106]

Yeah that have this stupid pretentious woke accent now

[@JoelitoStriker]

And they don't act like this anymore

[@McIntyreBible]

0:21, that’s scary!!

[@Ribeirasacra]

It is not a rat it is a Hamster. 🐹

[@truthlifefishing1730]

God forbid the local community cleans up anything.

[@kenmtb]

That is the job of the paid workers.

[@truthlifefishing1730]

@@kenmtb To pick up garage in gargle cans not that which has been thrown on the ground.

[@dirkbogarde7796]

just like today, the rats are looting and murdering across NYC.
Hope and change baby, hope and change.

[@MarkoKraguljac]

Sir, spare some change?

[@user-hj3sb6lz4n]

That New York accent sounds different from the One today.

[@safetcucaj385]

I was born in 73, So I know , not fully but I remember

[@AJsRemovalServices]

Wow

[@timpriddy349]

mobsters and dismembered body parts