Clean Streets: expanded hours and painting in 2025

As warmer weather brought longer daylight hours and more people outside, the Gramercy Park Block Association announced an expansion of Clean Streets in May 2025. Starting that week, the team would work an additional two hours each day.

The change responded to a familiar pattern: more activity means more work to keep sidewalks, curbs and shared surfaces in good condition.

The accompanying letter and before-and-after photographs showed the range of that care. Alongside sweeping and emptying litter baskets, the crew removed graffiti, painted fixtures, cleared drains and power-washed heavily used areas.

With two more hours on duty each day, the team could spend longer on litter collection, graffiti removal and the other jobs shown here. The photographs are from 2025; the program page describes Clean Streets’ work today.

Later that May, the Block Association reported painting work on the 41 tree-garden fences and on familiar street fixtures, including lampposts, litter baskets, hydrants and mailboxes. The letter also described seasonal replanting coordinated with the Trustees’ caretaker, Amando Flores.

The May 29 letter thanked German Marin of the Block Association’s Clean Streets team and Amando for their contributions. Marin worked on the streets for the Block Association, Amando in the Park for the Trustees.

The gallery pairs before-and-after views of a lamppost base and litter basket with photographs of the crew at work. Alongside the everyday sweeping and collection, it shows the fence and street-fixture painting carried out that spring.