New York Post (Partial)- At least my home town come in first again -
last year it was numero uno in the country...
The top five dirtiest cities in the country are run by Democrat mayors,
a new study has found. Among 152 of the biggest cities across the United States, Houston won the No. 1 spot for dirtiest city, followed by Newark, New Jersey, San Bernardino, California, Detroit and Jersey City, New Jersey, according to a study released Thursday by LawnStarter.
LawnStarter measured each city across four categories: pollution, which measures things like air quality and greenhouse gas emissions; living conditions, like the percentage of homes containing mold or rats; infrastructure, which measures waste output and regulations; and consumer satisfaction, or the percentage of residents who find the city dirty.
Houston, which is run by Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner, ranked No. 1 in overall score for the dirtiest city. It ranked third in the nation on pollution, fourth on poor living conditions, 12th on infrastructure and 34th on consumer satisfaction. Houston also ranks third-worst in greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial facilities and has the biggest cockroach problem, the study said, citing data from the US Census Bureau.
This is last year's winner..
In my early and mid teens, I lived in Maplewood, NJ. I used to walk to and from Ben's Billiards on Springfield Ave and S 12th St in Newark. Sometimes at midnight with no problem. We used to take the bus downtown to the movies, pinball arcades or shop for clothes. My wife grew up on Bloomfield ave; an Italian enclave where you could walk anywhere without worry. Have an Italian dog at Dickie Dee's or Lemon ice at Tingaling's. Times were very different then.
ReplyDeletehouston received a lot of guests from new orleans after katrina. Newark never recovered from the riots.
ReplyDeleteI guess they have never been to Austin. I haven't found Houston to be that bad as long as you stayed out of the low income housing areas. Austin has a homeless encampment around city hall and waste management cannot keep up with the trash generated by them. Add to that the fecal/urine smell all around the river walk.
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