Mr. Lotto has no plans to challenge the police over garbage.

They also send their children to schools that are at 120 percent of capacity, and they step over garbage in the streets.

Some trash might also eventually find its way once again to a part of the city that nearly mutinied over garbage a decade ago, Staten Island.

That had pretty well vanished the first time she'd traveled east and seen them fighting over garbage around the harborfronts and fishing boats.

After all, the two neighbors have clashed over garbage hauling and airports in recent years, and threatened to steal each other's sports teams.

He ordered T-shirts with pictures of seagulls and a hawk hovering over garbage.

But a full-fledged border battle over garbage is not about to erupt.

A hundred yards away, a bulldozer was pushing landfill over garbage.

Just last month, a protest over garbage piling up in four of the complex's buildings brought out scores of residents to Metropolitan Avenue.

Too, there were the political problems that buzzed around the stuff like flies over garbage.