A New Yorker cleaned the same Washington Heights block every day for 100 days and spent $2,000 on it; then his neighbours joined in

What began with a $40 cleaning kit and one littered New York City block eventually turned into a neighbourhood effort to clean, garden and reclaim public space. David Clarke, a 24-year-old New Yorker behind the grassroots project Trash Talk NYC, spent 100 days cleaning the area around West 171st Street between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, according to Hoodline and Clarke’s own account of the project.

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