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To: John Vosilla who wrote (51839)	4/12/2006 12:05:48 AM
From: renovator	Respond to of 306849

One of Rudy's big pushes against "The Mob" was to go after the garbage/carting biz. He proclaimed huge headline changes and brought in Browning-Ferris and Waste Management along with a few indictments of traditional haulers. Within a year the new corporate guys were jacking up prices and quitting routes they claimed could never be profitable. By then many familiar faces were turning up on the scene only the truck names and colors had changed--same drivers and voices on the dispatch lines. Today there are very few restaurant or construction debris pickups handled by the corporate haulers. The service I get from the old school carters could not be any better. The biggest change Rudy did bring on was a much larger and actively supported police presence on the street--which has been continued by Mike Bloomberg. I am routinely amused to find ridiculously expensive rides parked overnight in my neighborhood where I once would not leave a beater van parked without a serious chain and lock on the hood, most of them even keep all the glass and wheels.