If they don’t, they can face escalating fines.
At Monday’s briefing, DSNY’s acting commissioner, Javier Lojan, said enforcement would follow this storm.
“While we are stepping in to assist in this work, we will be issuing summonses after the storm for property owners who do not meet this responsibility to keep their neighbors safe,” he said.
Beyond its full-time workforce of 2,600 sanitation workers per 12-hour shift, DSNY has ramped up its emergency snow shoveler program.
Overnight, 575 emergency snow shovelers were deployed across the city, with more than 800 working the morning shift, according to Mayor Mamdani. By Monday afternoon, the department had expanded supervision capacity and said it could deploy up to 1,800 shovelers per shift. Pay has been increased to $30 an hour during the storm, officials said.