No Fowling Around : Our Crews Swiftly Cleaned Up the Chinese New Year Parade Route
Celebrating the Year of the Rooster , the feathering flock of domesticated birds were the most popular figures in this year ’ s Chinese New Year Parade .
And as soon as the parade passed by , Public Works crews got to work getting the Chinatown and downtown neighborhoods back in shape after the annual outdoor celebration , held this year on Feb . 11 .
Starting at 7 p . m . – right behind the iconic golden dragon at the end of the parade – more than 60 Public Works employees , including laborers , corridor workers , supervisors and assistant superintendents , wielded brooms , rakes , brushes and blowers or drove the fleet of mechanical sweepers , flushers , packers and steamers , to get the streets , sidewalks and underneath the viewing stands spruced up quickly .
By 10:30 pm , life on the parade route that extended from Second and Mission streets to Columbus and Jackson streets , was shipshape .
We want to give a big shout-out to the dedicated workers who cleaned up 16,700 pounds of debris in 3 ½ hours . Now that ’ s something to cock-a-doodle-doo about !