NEW YORK —  The city will soon begin hiring a thousands of workers to clean up the five boroughs, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

The new City Cleanup Corps will be tasked with beautifying parks, removing graffiti and washing sidewalks.

The Corps, which de Blasio announced in his State of the City address in January, will hire 1,000 people this month, growing to 10,000 people by July. 

The goal of the program is to create jobs —  the positions will pay $15 an hour —  with cleaning the city, which residents have complained has grown diriter over the last year. The Corps will also be tasked with designing murals and tidying community gardens, and will be spread across the Parks Department, public housing and the Departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection. 

“This is gonna be part of what brings New York City back strong,” de Blasio said at a press conference.

De Blasio compared the program to the massive New Deal efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, when the Works Progress Administration created millions of jobs across the country. Posters for the Corps are designed with reference to New Deal-era advertisements for federal programs.

De Blasio said that the cleanup efforts would focus on the 33 neighborhoods identified by the city that were hit hardest by the pandemic, as well as business districts. 

The jobs will be paid for with federal COVID-19 recovery stimulus money. 

Jobs will be posted at www.nyc.gov/ccc.