The street sweepers are hungry. New Yorkers mustn't get in their way.

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Get out of the way, the street sweepers must feed.

As fall foliage blankets roads across the five boroughs, the sanitation department’s trusty brooms on four wheels are sucking up more debris than any other time of the year. City officials report the big bruisers have an insatiable appetite for leaves.

During a typical autumn week when the city’s oaks, maples and London plane trees shed amber and yellow leaves, DSNY deploys an additional 364 street sweepers along new routes — or about a 31% increase from t