Midnight Can-Can.

I wish this letter was about that lively, rattling, energetic dance popular in the mid-1800s. But there’s a different kind of rattle going on once a week on recycling day. And it’s very up close and personal.

What’s the story with these midnight can-collecting entrepreneurs going from house to house invading the private property of homeowners’ trash being put out for DSNY pickup?

Late in the evening before recycling days, if you’re already in bed or just about to, no sooner are your eyes closed do your ears open with the rambunctious rattle of your recycling garbage cans being searched.

It’s unbelievable. Of course, our hearts sincerely go out to folks who are desperate for cash, as little as that may amount to given the measly five cents New York deposit payback for

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