Leafsweeps: How the city rakes
October 30, 2007
On the concrete-clad front walks in Brooklyn, the typical "rake" is often the side of a shoe, an old scrap of cardboard, or, if you're as sophisticated as Javier here, an actual broom.
Concrete doesn't treat the bristles kindly, though. Anything natural abrades quickly, and the synthetic jobs don't fare much better, as you can see below.
The problem, Javier explains, is that the leaves continue to fall, despite his best efforts.
"I sweep it up in the morning, but by the afternoon I gotta do the whole walk over," he says.
"Whaddya gonna do?"
At least Javier could have a robot clean out his gutters.
Or, he could lock his leaves in a pile so they don't fly away.
And there's always blowing them at 170 miles per hour.
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