John Quaglione, the Bay Ridge Guy Who Keeps Photographing Garbage
On a busy Summer weekend in Bay Ridge, there is going to be a lot of garbage. John Quaglione likes to photograph garbage on street corners and post them on social media and complain. See:
I remembered recently reading about Councilman Gentile using $200,000 to finance a sixth day of garbage pickup on the avenue and some extra cleaning in Bay Ridge too. We always had five days of pickups, but Gentile recognized that the avenue needed an extra pickup each week. See here and here.
Gentile shared that information with the public on July 20th (the reporter included that date of in the article). Quaglione photographed the garbage on Sunday, July 23rd – the day of the week he knew there was no pickup. Quaglione was also counting on you and I not knowing that Gentile had increased pickups in Bay Ridge.
Why would John Quaglione do that? Because Quaglione likes to play politics. He made it look like no one is doing anything about the problem, except him. His solution to the problem was to photograph it and put it on Twitter. Whining on social media doesn’t solve the problem. It just shows us that Quaglione isn’t a good problem-solver or leader. We never saw Vinnie Gentile complaining about his job. Gentile is always positive, upbeat and hopeful. Why hasn’t Marty Golden or someone on Team Quaglione told him to stop photographing garbage and complaining on social media?
Of course this isn’t the first time Quaglione complained about the corner garbage on social media. Four years ago, when Quaglione ran for office and lost (2013), he did the same thing during his campaign. Quaglione was even photographed with a garbage can because he wanted a reporter to write a story about him for the paper. It’s four years later and the same reporter photographed Quaglione with his home garbage can because Quaglione wanted to be in the paper (he didn’t actually do anything). Silly politicians fill our papers with nonsense and residents here can’t get news of what’s happening in the neighborhood because of this.
Quaglione works at Senator Golden’s office. The real question becomes: Why didn’t Senator Golden do anything about this?
Hugs,
marlene
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