Operation Cleaner Streets should be immediately launched right here on City Island.

City Island Images has personally witnessed people who throw trash on the ground,or allow their pets to defaecate on our streets without picking up after them. When challenged, they ignored us, or denied it ever occurred.

Locals, community leaders and clergymen should donate time to sweep the pavement picking up trash around City Island avenue's heavily trafficked areas.

It is time for the civic association to organize such a necessary program one day of every month.

Today's landmark decision by a federal judge that NYPD has violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of Black and Latinos by subjecting them to unlawful stops. The judge told NYPD to bring its practices in line with the US Constitution and seeks an independent monitor.

Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling in Floyd v. City of New York found the NYPD liable for violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.