More sanitation crews will be sweeping through Staten Island.
On the final day of his week-long tour of the borough, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new two-person sanitation cleanup crews.
They will be deployed throughout the borough to manually sweep and collect trash from the sidewalks, streets and other public places three times a week for 32 weeks out of the year.
The mayor and other city officials say they hope the initiative will tackle Staten Island's litter problem.
"There's a litter problem that isn't being addressed, and it's going to take some work by our sanitation workers, but we will put funding in the budget to allow that to happen at key sites all around Staten Island," de Blasio said.
"In a borough that loves to point the finger at various entities, the mayor, the governor, Port Authority, Health and Hospitals Corporation, the MTA, people from New Jersey, the Boston Red Sox, in this instance, the litter problem we have on Staten Island is our own doing," said Staten Island Borough President James Oddo.
Staten Island has the fewest number of waste baskets in the city.
Also Friday, the mayor visited a public housing development to announce the $5.7 million renovation and expansion of a community center, allowing it to serve another 150 people.