New York City Department of Sanitation (English Wikipedia)

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"The Street-Cleaning Bureau Moved". The New York Times. May 30, 1881. p. 5. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
"The New Street-Cleaning Law – Lieut.-Commander Gorringe Declines to Serve as Commissioner". The New York Times. May 31, 1881. p. 1. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
"The New Commissioner – Mr. James S. Coleman Appointed to Clean the Streets". The New York Times. June 5, 1881. p. 12. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
"Mr. Coleman Assumes Charge – He Promises to Give the City Clean Streets If Possible". The New York Times. June 17, 1881. p. 8. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
"Coleman Gives Up Office – His Resignation Sent to the Mayor – But Before He Wrote His Letter Mayor Grant Had Asked The Board of Health to Remove Him". The New York Times. December 31, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
"Schroeder Heads Sanitation Board – Quits as Hospital Commissioner as He Is Sworn In by Walker for New City Post – Two Aides To Be Named – Street Cleaning Department's Work Will Be Taken Over by Body Created at Last Election". The New York Times. December 1, 1929. p. 20. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
"The New Commissioner — Mr. James S. Coleman Appointed to Clean the Streets". The New York Times. June 5, 1881. p. 12. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mr. Coleman Assumes Charge — He Promises to Give the City Clean Streets If Possible". The New York Times. June 17, 1881. p. 8. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Coleman Gives Up Office — His Resignation Sent to the Mayor — But Before He Wrote His Letter Mayor Grant Had Asked The Board of Health to Remove Him". The New York Times. December 31, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"His Honor Heaves A Sigh — He Finds a Street Sweeper in Horace Loomis — A Democrat From Westchester County — His Record As An Engineer — His Plans for the Department". The New York Times. January 18, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Horace Loomis Resigns — Hans S. Beattie Will Look After the Streets — Worrying Over the Street Cleaning Problem Made Mr. Loomis Ill — Tammany and the Contracts". The New York Times. April 4, 1890. p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Hans Beattie in Command — His First Move Toward Cleaning the City's Streets". The New York Times. April 4, 1890. p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mr. Beattie Wasn't There — A Wake in the Mayor's Office Without the Waked — Money Transferred by the Board of Estimate to the Carting Fund of the Street-Cleaning Department — Hans Will Fight". The New York Times. September 17, 1891. p. 9. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"The Mayor Wastes No Time — "Big Tom" Brennan Appointed to Succeed Mr. Beattie — For Years The New Street-Cleaning Commissioner Was in the Charities And Correction Department — Hans's Parting Shot". The New York Times. September 18, 1891. p. 8. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Brennan Gives Up The Broom — W.S. Andrews Succeeds Him As Cleaner of Streets — Col. M.C. Murphy Appointed to the Place in the Excise Board from Which Mr. Andrews Resigned — Mr. Brennan Writes His Resignation After a Talk with Mayor Gilroy — Going to Take His Son, Who Is Ill, to Saratoga — Mr. Andrews Promises Clean Streets". The New York Times. July 22, 1893. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Col. Waring Begins Work — Charles K. Moore Made Deputy Street-Cleaning Commissioner — Proclamation by Mayor Strong — Provisions of the Law Concerning Refuse Called to the Attention of Citizens — Salaries Reduced". The New York Times. January 16, 1895. p. 9. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"The New City Officials — As Announced by Mayor Van Wyck, the Slate Contains Some Surprises — Politicians Are Puzzled — Friends of Hugh J. Grant Seem to be Intentionally Ignored — The List as Given Out Yesterday". The New York Times. January 2, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"James McCartney Dead — The Commissioner of Street Cleaning Passes Away at His Home After a Long Illness". The New York Times. February 7, 1900. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mr Nale on His Work — Col. Waring's Example, New Commissioner Intimates, Will Be His Model — Promises Devotion to Duty". The New York Times. February 12, 1900. p. 10. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mr. Low Names Department Heads — Twelve Appointees Added to the New Administration — Mr. Lederle Health Commissioner — Dr. Woodbury Street Cleaning Commissioner — Cornelius Vanderbilt in Office". The New York Times. December 17, 1901. p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Woodbury Resigns, Saying He Had To — Declares the Mayor Injected Politics Into His Department — Fight on Murphy Continues — Tammany Men Say the Mayor and McCarren Are Forcing Out All the Murphy Supporters". The New York Times. October 14, 1906. p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Macdonough Craven Succeeds Woodbury — New Street Cleaning Head Was One of Waring's Men — Hasn't Been in Politics — He Is Instructed "to Shake Up the Department" and Keep Politics Out of It". The New York Times. October 23, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Ellison Out; Others Follow — Mayor's Action Looked On as Move Against Murphy and the Sullivans — Martin Joins His Camp — Bolting Tammany Leader Made City Chamberlain — Pendleton, Bensel, and Polk Fill Other Offices". The New York Times. July 9, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Dr. Bensel". The New York Times. July 10, 1907. p. 6. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Crowell in Charge of City's Streets — Mayor Names Engineer to Succeed Dr. Bensel, Whom He Praises Highly — Henry Smith for Parks — New Commissioner a Member of Tammany General Committee — Vacancies In School Board Filled". The New York Times. November 21, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Edwards to Clean Streets — He Will Succeed Crowell as Commissioner on Jan. 1". The New York Times. December 24, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mayor Starts 1909 in War on Tammany — His New Street Commissioner, "Big Bill" Edwards, to Get Rid of Wigwam Men — Job for "Big Jim" Hogan — Ex-Football Captain to be Deputy Commissioner — J.J. Barry Corrections Head — No City Hall Reception". The New York Times. January 2, 1909. p. 8. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mitchel Names His City Helpers — Henry Bruere City Chamberlain, Adamson Fire Commissioner, as Predicted — Several Men Hold Over — John T. Featherston, Recognized National Expert, To Clean Streets — Miss Davis Commissioner — Republicans Get Many Places, Progressives Two, Independent Democrats the Rest". The New York Times. January 1, 1914. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mayor Names MacStay — New Street Cleaning Commissioner Was Formerly a Deputy". The New York Times. January 31, 1916. p. 6. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"John P. Leo is Named to Clean the Streets — Headed Standards Board — Thomas F. Smith to Be Public Administrator". The New York Times. January 6, 1921. p. 2. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Resigns as D.S.C. Head — MacStay Then Appointed Deputy Commissioner of Public Works". The New York Times. January 4, 1921. p. 27. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Leo Quits Hylan; Attacks Inquiry — Street Commissioner Asks Prosecutor Either to Indict Him or His Accusers — Calls the Mayor Unfair — Says He Has Been Influenced by Dumping Contractors — Taylor Temporary Successor — Leo's Employes Celebrate — Politics Versus Efficiency Seen as Cause of Friction That Leads to Resignation". The New York Times. November 19, 1921. p. 21. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Street Cleaning Job Goes to Taylor — Mayor Appoints Superintendent Commissioner to Succeed Leo — Has Big Program in Mind — New Incumbent Says He Does Not Contemplate Any Changes Among His Deputies". The New York Times. November 26, 1921. p. 9. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Schroeder Begins Work in New Post — Removal of Snow Is His First Big Job as Head of Sanitation Board — Cadley Running Hospitals — Is Named Temporary Successor by Retiring Chief, Whose New Pay Is Not Yet Fixed". The New York Times. December 3, 1929. p. 33. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"M'Aneny is Slated for Sanitation Job — Mayor Is Expected to Appoint Him as One-Man Board When Schroeder Is Ousted — Political Gesture Seen — Naming of Ex-Transit Head Is Viewed as Bid for Support of Independent Democrats". The New York Times. April 19, 1933. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"M'Aneny Accepts Sanitation Post — Independent Democrat and a Fusion Leader Does Not Plan to Sever Old 'Connections' — O'Brien Gives 'Free Hand' — Appointee Stresses Desire for Civic Service — Price and La Guardia Are Critical". The New York Times. April 19, 1933. p. 19. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"M'Aneny is Named to Controllership — Gets Leave as Sanitation Head to Direct City's Finances Until January 1 — Will Not Change Force — Promises to Open Records to Public — Joins in Parley With Gov. Lehman". The New York Times. September 30, 1933. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"O'Brien Defends Naming of Boyle — 'Will Stand Before the World' on Choice for Bench, Mayor Declares — Calls It Finest Possible — Avoids Query on Bar's Stand on Selection for the Children's-Domestic Relations Court". The New York Times. p. 13. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Goodrich Resigns Sanitation Post; Denounces Mayor — Calls LaGuardia 'Worse Than Unfair' — Refuses to Bow to 'Intimidation and Politics' — Won't Be Replaced Now — City Executive Is Silent on Attack — Renews Charge of Laxity in Bureau". The New York Times. March 8, 1934. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Col. Hammond Sworn as Sanitation Head — Acting Commissioner Succeeds Goodrich, Resigned — His Salary $10,000". The New York Times. June 3, 1934. p. 2. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Carey in New Post — Becomes Sanitation Chief and Hammond Gets Another Job". The New York Times. May 27, 1936. p. 25. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"W.F. Carey Named to Hammond Post — Builder and Ex-Head of Garden Picked by Mayor to Take Over the Sanitation Department". The New York Times. May 17, 1936. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Carey Quits City Post — Sanitation Head's Resignation to Be Effective Jan. 1". The New York Times. November 18, 1945. p. 30. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"O'Dwyer Names 18 As Aides, Warning: 'Make Good Or Go' — Gives His Commissioners and Bureau Heads 3 Months to Meet 'Team' Requirements — Sees Grave Tasks Ahead — Financial, Housing, School and Transit Problems Among the Most Urgent, He Declares". The New York Times. December 31, 1945. pp. 1 and 28. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Boss 'White Wing' Will Quit Life Job — W.J. Powell, Once Truck Driver, Became Chief in '45 — Recalls Big Christmas Snowfall". The New York Times. November 30, 1949. p. 28. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Mulrain Takes Over as Sanitation Chief". The New York Times. December 22, 1949. p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Screvane to Be Sanitation Chief; Will Succeed Mulrain March 1; New Commissioner Joined the Department as Driver — Will Earn $25,000". The New York Times. February 1, 1957. p. 22. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Screvane is Sworn In — Crowd of 500 Appears to Honor New Sanitation Chief". The New York Times. February 26, 1957. p. 31. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Bennett, Charles G. (March 2, 1961). "Screvane Named as Deputy Mayor — Sanitation Chief Succeeding O'Keefe, Who Resigns to Return to Business". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Bennett, Charles G. (March 3, 1961). "Top Aide is Named Sanitation Chief — Selection of Lucia and New Post for Screvane Seen Bid for Italian Support". The New York Times. p. 29. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Knowles, Clayton (December 14, 1965). "Officials, Present and Past, Give Mayor Warm Send-off — 30 Top Executives of City Will Retire at End of Year". The New York Times. p. 47. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Johnston, Richard J.H. (December 28, 1965). "Periconi to Be Appointed Sanitation Commissioner". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Lissner, Will (November 20, 1966). "Periconi to Resign As Sanitation Head". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Kearing is Named Sanitation Chief — Markets Commissioner Will Take Periconi's Post". The New York Times. November 16, 1966. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Raymont, Henry (November 24, 1966). "Kearing to Name an Investigator — Inspector General Will Scan Sanitation Irregularities". The New York Times. p. 50. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Schumach, Murray (November 15, 1967). "Kearing Resigns Sanitation Post — Ex-Lindsay Campaign Aide Sends Short Note Mayor Accepts With 'Regret'". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Kearing Quits Sanitation Job As Aides Try to Fight Tears". The New York Times. November 18, 1966. p. 25. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Sibley, John (December 13, 1967). "Marcus Resigns City Water Post During Inquiry — Hogan Studying Former Role of the Commissioner in a Business Activity — 13th Appointee to Quit — Mayor Accepts With Regret and Sends Warm Letter to Friend and Confidant". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"City Hall Dynamo — Fioravante Gerald Gabriel Perrotta". The New York Times. December 26, 1967. p. 29. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
King, Seth S. (December 27, 1967). "Sanitation Chief Named by Mayor — Maurice Feldman Appointed a Acting Commissioner Temporary Post Stressed". The New York Times. p. 25. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Bird, David (January 29, 1968). "Scientist to Head City Superagency on Environment — Former Atomic Specialist Is Appointed by Lindsay to New $35,000 Position — Sanitation Post Filled — Ex-Navy Engineer to Direct Refuse Removal — 2 Men Take Office in March". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"James P. Marron, Civil Engineer, 41 — Consultant Dies — Had Been Named Sanitation Official". The New York Times. June 19, 1968. p. 47. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
King, Seth S. (June 5, 1968). "Lindsay Appoints Sanitation Department Head". The New York Times. p. 31. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Tolchin, Martin (April 27, 1971). "Mayor Swears in Sanitation Chief" (PDF). The New York Times. pp. 1 and 34. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Bird, David (April 4, 1975). "Groh Named Sanitation Commissioner — Deputy Queens Borough President to Replace Herbert Elish". The New York Times. p. 45. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
McFadden, Robert D. (September 21, 1975). "Groh Resigns Job, Citing Pressures On City Cleanup — Commissioner of Sanitation Acts Day Before Deadline Given Him by Mayor — Lang Will Take Charge — Environmental Aide Named as Interim Chief by Beame in Productivity Drive". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Pearlmutter, Emanuel (December 28, 1975). "Beame Appointes 2 Commissioners in New Shake-up — Names Lang to Head Parks and Vaccarello as Chief of Sanitation Department — More Changes Planned — Lazar Is Expected to Leave and Successor to Dumpson Is to Be Announced". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Ranzal, Edward (January 6, 1976). "2 Commissioners Sworn by Beame — Vaccarello in Sanitation Job Lang Takes Over Parks". The New York Times. p. 24. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
"Manager Koch Shifts the Lineup at City Hall". The New York Times. November 6, 1978. p. 52. Retrieved January 28, 2018.

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Campbell, Colin (July 6, 1981). "Salute to Sanitationmen Aims to Counter Morale Problem". The New York Times.
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"Tammany Protege,, M'Andrews, Is Named Secretary to Mayor –Tighter Organization Grip on City Seen in Appointment of Curry's Friend – Lack of Guiding Hand Felt – Former Magistrate Expected to Shape City Hall Policies in Walker's Absence – Adds to Curry's Prestige – Charles S. Hand Is Placed on Sanitation Board as Mayor Praises Both Appointees". The New York Times. June 4, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
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Ranzal, Edward (August 11, 1970). "'Team' Headed by Kretchmer To Run Sanitation Department". The New York Times. p. 22. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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