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Grassroot Movement of Building Supers, Porters & Property Owners

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We Are Fighting For NYC Building Supers, Porters, and Building Owners!

We are a grassroots movement of non-union Building Superintendents and Porters, and building owners, formed in response to this outrageous and unfair rat regulation in NYC which forces Building Superintendents and Porters to work past 8 PM to throw our building's trash to the curb.  We now work 12 to 14-hour days, with no overtime pay, because of this Mayor and City Council.   


This regulation has uprooted our lives and has caused riffs within our family and our close friend's.  We are no longer able to eat dinners with them 156 nights each year because of this absentminded approach to rid the city of rats by city officials.  


We are committed to getting this regulation completely overturned. 


But we need your help. 


SEND THIS WEBSITE TO OTHER BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS, PORTER'S, AND BUILDING OWNERS TODAY! 


We need them, and we need you, to join our growing movement.


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NYU DOC ABOUT MY GROUP OF BUILDING SUPERS AND PORTErs

Check out this great video by
Will Fitzpatrick 

WHATS NEXT


I AM RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL 

IN DISTRICT 03


After two years of fighting City Hall as a Building Superintendent, for Supers, Porters, small property owners, and the working class, as the leader of NYCBuildingSuperS.com 

I will be running against fellow Democrat, Erik Bottcher for City Council in 2025.


The Democrat Party is no longer the party of the working class, and we need more working class people to run against these Democrats in office today.  


Please see my campaign website below and consider contributing to our mutual causes.


Dom2025.com


I hope I can earn your vote.


DOMINICK ROMEO


RIGHT NOW!


OUR LIST OF DEMANDS

  • We want a non-zoom, in person meeting with Jessica Tisch, the Sanitation Commissioner.  We have been asking for a meeting with her for almost two years now, and we have been ignored.
     
  • We demand that City Council move the trash take-out time back to 4 PM or 6 PM, without containers, because our buildings do not have room to store 50 to 100 to 150 containers in our basements.


  • Supers should not be responsible for fines rendered to our buildings, for composting or recycling or anything that a resident themselves is responsible for. 


  • No fines should be taken out of the salaries of any Building Superintendent or Porters working in a building - as is the case with many of our members.


  • City of New York must create legislation preventing Building Superintendents and Porters for getting their wages garnished after their building receives a fine from The Department of Sanitation [DSNY]. 


  • The City of New York must have 7 - day a week trash pickups for regular tarsh, and 3 day a week pickups for recycling and composting - like they do in Paris, France!  


NOT 3-day a week pickup days for regular trash, and only 1- day a week for recycling and rotting compost.


  • These bags of compost are rotting in the backs of our building for a week straight, sometimes for two weeks, when a garbage day is missed do to a holiday, or because DSNY forgot to pick up our building's trash, or completely skipped our block but picked up other blocks instead. 


  • Members agree that a trash program, like the one they have in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) where there are no garbage day pickups, for buildings and for residents, because their citizens walk to the nearest trash center to dispose of their trash there, in the appropriate container, and that trash gets buried underground -  should be considered as the best solution for New York City’s future. 


  • Amsterdam uses underground bins which are sprinkled throughout each neighborhood for their recycling and regular trash programs. These bins get picked up a couple of times each week. They use a garbage truck with a small crane on top of it, to pull these bins out of the ground and into their trucks. 



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Media & Press

Click The Photo to read ny post article about our fight with city hall

Click The Photo to read ny post article about our fight with city hall

Click The Photo to read ny post article about our fight with city hall

This NYC super is fighting the new trash set-out time: ‘Our act of defiance’

Click The Photo For NY1 News - Inside Politics Interview.

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Click The Photo to read ny post article about our fight with city hall

New York City Building Supers organizer talks rules for when to take out the trash

THE GOTHAMIST ARTICLE

Click The Photo to read ny post article about our fight with city hall

THE GOTHAMIST ARTICLE

NYC supers say new trash rules are ruining their lives

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Click The Photo To Read My 3rd Article in WestView News

THE GOTHAMIST ARTICLE

“They Ruined Our Lives” — Building Supers Rally Against NYC’s Trash Policies in Rat War Fallout

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Click The Photo To Read My 3rd Article in WestView News

Click The Photo To Read My 3rd Article in WestView News

Steamed Supers Say Their Work Lives Are Casualties of City’s ‘War on Rats’

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Click The Photo To Read My 3rd Article in WestView News

Click The Photo To Read My 3rd Article in WestView News

DSNY Fails Building Supers And Porters

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Click The Photo To Read My Second Article in WestView News

Click The Photo To Read My Second Article in WestView News

NYC BUILDING SUPERS & HOMEOWNERS ARE MYSTIFIED BY 8 PM TRASH TAKE-OUT TIME

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Click The Photo To Read My Second Article in WestView News

Click The Photo To Read My Second Article in WestView News

RAT REGULATIONS ARE KILLING US – BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS

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Click The PhotO TO READ POLITICS NY'S ARTICLE OF HOW 32BJ THrew THEIR MEMBERS UNDER THE BUS

NEW TRASH RULES FOR RATS ARE MAKING SCHEDULING HEADACHES FOR SUPERS!

Click The PhotO TO READ POLITICS NY'S ARTICLE OF HOW 32BJ THrew THEIR MEMBERS UNDER THE BUS

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

Click The PhotO TO READ POLITICS NY'S ARTICLE OF HOW 32BJ THrew THEIR MEMBERS UNDER THE BUS

Click The PhotO TO READ POLITICO ARTICLE OF HOW 32BJ IS TICKED OFF NOW

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

Click The PhotO TO READ HABITAT's Article on How this regulation has stretched us Supers & PORTER'S thin

NYC building supers say they're eagerly awaiting holiday tips from tenants this year

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

New York City’s building superintendents are banking on tips this holiday season, and many are eager to advise tenants — especially younger ones — on how much they should give.

“ Fifty bucks is fine,” said Dominick Romeo, a veteran super who maintains buildings in Manhattan. “A hundred bucks will keep them smiling for a few weeks after Jan. 1.”

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

Dominick Romeo, the activist super in Chelsea who plans to run for City Council, advocates for regular trash pickup six days a week, with three days for recycling and compost.

So far, his building’s compost hasn’t been picked up on several occasions, whether accidentally or on purpose, he told The Post. “So I have to bring all that disgust

Dominick Romeo, the activist super in Chelsea who plans to run for City Council, advocates for regular trash pickup six days a week, with three days for recycling and compost.

So far, his building’s compost hasn’t been picked up on several occasions, whether accidentally or on purpose, he told The Post. “So I have to bring all that disgusting liquifying material back into my building. It rots and turns to juice and attracts more rodents.”

The brown compost bins are small compared with regular trash bins. Compost is heavy, “so supers fill up their compost bin maybe 30% of the way and tie it up and store it somewhere, which attracts rats,” Romeo said. If the bin is too full and therefore too heavy, “DSNY has the right to say they’re not picking it up.”

VILLAGE VIEW News: Building Supers Meet With Deputy DSNY Commissioner Joshua Goodman

An article by Joyce Cohen from the NYPost about our City's composting program that mentions me is below. Another NYC program that could have been thought out better had they asked those who are handling these bags.

VILLAGE VIEW News: Building Supers Meet With Deputy DSNY Commissioner Joshua Goodman

For a year and a half, my group of building superintendents (NYCBuildingSupers.com) requested meetings with Jessica Tisch, former sanitation commissioner, and Joshua Goodman, the Deputy Commissioner/ Public Affairs Officer for the Department of Sanitation. Finally, Joshua met me for coffee three weeks ago.  It has been a long road to get 

For a year and a half, my group of building superintendents (NYCBuildingSupers.com) requested meetings with Jessica Tisch, former sanitation commissioner, and Joshua Goodman, the Deputy Commissioner/ Public Affairs Officer for the Department of Sanitation. Finally, Joshua met me for coffee three weeks ago.  It has been a long road to get here. 

 In April of 2022, the Department of Sanitation of New York [DSNY] created a new ordinance that forced building superintendents, like me, to toss out our building’s trash after 8 p.m. This is allegedly to combat our city’s rat problem – or at least that’s what the city’s massive PR campaign, “Let’s Send These Rats Packing,” led us to believe.   

Building “supers” and porters had been bringing the trash to the curb at 4 p.m. because our working hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., just like everyone else’s.  We are contracted to be in our buildings during those hours to tackle our daily tasks, which include meeting with vendors, like plumbers, electricians, contractors, and elevator repair personnel who also work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Under the new rule, we are forced to go back to work after 8 p.m. to take out the trash.

HOW AMSTERDAM DISPOSES OF ITS TRASH

WE NEED TO ADOPT HOW ITS DONE IN AMSTERDAM


Amsterdam uses underground bins which are sprinkled throughout each neighborhood for their recycling and regular trash programs. These bins get picked up a couple of times each week. They use a garbage truck with a small crane on top of it, to pull these bins out from the ground and into their trucks.  


Each person would walk to the nearest locations, dump their regular trash into one container and their recycling and compost into the others, then walk away.  

It's simple as that!


This would also cut back on traffic jams caused by Sanitation trucks when clearing an entire block of garbage bags and trashcans.  



For larger items, like bed frames, mattresses, or armoires, Amsterdam has a separate truck with a crane attached, that picks up these items in one lift.  


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HOW AMSTERDAM DISPOSES OF ITS TRASH

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