Dear Editor:
You recently printed my 6/7/10 letter re “Clean Up Sinatra Drive.” A progress report:
Since my first letter was published, Stevens U (or the town of Hoboken?) has chopped down the knee-high scrub plants (weeds) that were overtaking the sidewalk alongside the Stevens parking lot on Sinatra Drive. Thank you.
Also, the abandoned dark green trash bags along the sidewalk north of the rollerblade park have been collected. Thank you.
However, Stevens U has not swept up the drifts of cigarette butts, plastic bottles, bottle caps, plastic wrappers, paper scraps, etc., that line the sidewalk just inside their fence. This accumulation of trash is mixed in with dust and dirt. This is the environment every citizen and visitor must endure as they walk from our lovely park to the elegant promenade north of the parking lot.
This neglect is especially galling because, as anyone who has ever walked through the Stevens campus will testify, Stevens keeps its own lawns manicured to perfection. Hollywood would consider it the perfect setting for a dream sequence of Heaven.
Stevens, could you please extend this standard of cleanliness to us, your host residents of Hoboken? One man with a broom and a box of trash bags could sweep this parking lot clean in a week-end.
Sincerely,
Janet Horton