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From rats, roaches, and trash piled on the curb, Big Apple often has a bad rep for being a dirty
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city. Yeah, well-deserved to, let's be honest. But a new study has crowned a different Northeast
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City with the title Dirtiest in America. Fox 5's Jennifer Williams breaks down the rankings
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New York City tends to embrace being number one no matter the category, but when it comes to the
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dirtiest city in America, that distinction belongs to Baltimore with NYC 17th on the list
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Do you want to take a guess where New York City ranks? Number one. Number one, 100%
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Ooh, I would say like two. Number two. That would be way higher
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If we could clean up, I think we need to do a little better. A study by House Fresh yzed over 12 million sanitation-related 311 complaints placed over the last year
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and ranked location based on the number of complaints per 100,000 people
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Sacramento, California was after Baltimore and Los Angeles was also in the top five
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With another town New Yorkers love to hate, Boston coming in sixth on the list
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I mean I been to LA and I kind of grossed out out there but I thought it was just because I not from LA and I from New York But yeah it pretty gross here So I surprised for sure I haven been to those other places but it really disgusting here There like
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garbage everywhere, poop and rats. So I'd say I'm surprised. In a statement to Fox 5 New York, the acting department of sanitation commissioner said
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I quote, think back to New York and the height of the pandemic. Piles of trash bags, dirty highways, surging rat sightings
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Over the last few years, we've made real investments in a cleaner city
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And all you have to do is open your eyes and your nose to see the difference
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Real New Yorkers know our streets are the cleanest they've been in decades
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I mean, there's pockets of the city that are super clean, super nice and all that for sure
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but like it's still a dirty city like literally I was not with my girl last night and it was like
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you know we were walking and like a bunch of rats just popped up and they weren't small they were
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big rats so I find that hard to believe you know somebody in like the mayor's office probably paid
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for us to be a little bit lower on that list you know on the upper east side Jennifer Williams Fox 5
