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To Fight Rats, NYC Restaurants Will Have to Put Trash in Containers

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons

In the latest front in New York City’s fight against the proliferation of trash and rats, city officials plan to require restaurants and bodegas to set out trash in containers instead of bags. The rule, which will be formally proposed on Thursday, could apply to 40,000 food-related businesses — roughly 20 percent of businesses in the city — covering “everything from Dunkin’ Donuts to Tavern on the Green,” the city’s sanitation commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said in an interview.

The move would address one of New York’s ubiquitous, age-old eyesores:
the heaps of smelly trash bags filled with restaurant food scraps and liquids
that remain at curbside for hours at night, providing easy targets for rats
until commercial haulers arrive. “We want people to understand that bags
on the street attract rats, and we need everyone to do their part —
residents, businesses and the city — to get the black bags of rat food
off the streets,” Ms. Tisch said. The rule would apply to a wide range
of businesses that produce most of the city’s food waste: catering companies,
food manufacturers, restaurants, food wholesalers and retail food stores.
They would be required to put trash at the curb in “rigid receptacles
with tight-fitting lids.”

What's Next:
The Sanitation Department will hold a public hearing on June 22
about the proposal for food-related businesses to use containers.
The rule could take effect as early as July. The New York Times

  

Austrian Max Hollein new head of New York's Met

Photo Credit: Deutsche Welle/Städel Museum

A year-long search for the next director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has come to an end; Vienna-born art historian and former head of prestigious museums in Frankfurt, Max Hollein, has been chosen.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday that it had named a new director. In August 2018, Max Hollein, originally from Austria, will take over the reins of the largest art museum in the US, with a collection of over 2 million artworks tracing 5,000 years of art history. Hollein currently serves as director and chief executive of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which comprises the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. Prior to that, he was director and CEO of three of Germany's most prestigious art institutions, including the Städel Museum, the Schirn Kunsthalle and the Liebieghaus, all in Frankfurt. 

A gifted leader
The Met noted in a press statement that Hollein had been elected at a meeting of the Board of Trustees as he "has demonstrated exceptional skill at building collections, diversifying audiences, and broadening institutional development." During his tenure at Frankfurt's Städel, the museum had notably doubled its exhibition space. At the same time, Hollein oversaw the development of digital strategies and evidenced an uncanny ability at managing exhibitions and collections of artworks spanning centuries, even millennia.

"Max is a gifted leader and is exceptionally well qualified to serve as our next director," said Dan Weiss, the Met's president and CEO. "I am confident that ours will be a strong and fruitful partnership, and that Max will help advance the Met's role as a global leader for culture and the arts."

An appointment during difficult times
Hollein's appointment is the first in 60 years that did not come from within the museum's internal ranks. The 10th person to occupy the Met's top post, Hollein succeeds Thomas Campbell, a British tapestries expert, who had been in the role since 2009. He enters the position in a difficult era; the Met, which has some seven million visitors each year, has had to cut costs and curb hiring after running a $10 million deficit during the 2016-17 fiscal year. Most recently, the museum made headlines for its decision to charge an admission fee for visitors from outside New York state. Previously, the museum's entrance fee was a suggested donation only. ct/eg (AFP, kna) DW-Deutsche Welle