The once world-celebrated, unique system for handling trash on Roosevelt Island is still broken. Two years after the jams started and through
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Cobbled together in a rush, a RIOC Advisory said yesterday that the state had ” shut down for emergency work” the entire “east
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Welcome AVAC repair work is underway along the West Promenade near Rivercross. Recurring problems leading to shutdowns have hampered the garbage collection
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Envac Iberia promised RIOC a newly renovated AVAC system in the spring of 2019, and RIOC awarded them $1.7 million for the
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Reverse nostalgia greeted some Roosevelt Islanders for Thanksgiving. Smelly hallways and heaps of black trash bags herald a new AVAC failure, after
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When RIOC updates on the AVAC, it’s always a little confusing and incomplete. But this time, it’s also mostly good news. By
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The AVAC crisis, we learned yesterday, has grown much worse. Now six months long, RIOC predicts as much as another half-year before
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The broken AVAC residents have dealt with since May got another spray of cryptic messaging from RIOC. Cryptic because each message contradicts
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The crisis caused by a nearly six month AVAC breakdown grew, this week,as the trash collection mess extended into Roosevelt Landings. Roosevelt
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Is the AVAC down for good? The question can’t be avoided now that almost half a year has passed since the system
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