Jackson Heights Life

I found a parakeet in my yard this morning. It's a wonder the cat didn't find it first.
If it's yours, come get it. Even if you just want it to be yours - please - come get it.

Associated Supermarkets and other local merchants distribute advertising circulars to homes up and down the streets and avenues of Jackson Heights. You know what I'm talking about - those ads you see rolled up and stuffed into fences and gates or sometimes simply dumped onto porches or tossed into yards. Such advertising placement in itself is bad enough. But what's more irksome is this: Those circulars don't always stay where they're put. Instead, they become unsightly windblown debris and ticket-bait for any NYC Sanitation enforcement officer who happens along.

Today I see three, four and five Associated circulars left at each of the houses along 92nd and 93rd streets. There's half a dozen of them blowing around on the sidewalk in front of the neighbor's place and another one tire-mulched into the middle of the street in front of my house. Yuck.

Sure, they gotta advertise, but it seems to me the marketeers at Associated et al could come up with a more neighborly approach, one that's not such an eco-insult to our community.

Talk to them? I tried that. I've telephoned their stores and head offices. I've logged-on their websites to register complaints. I've mailed letters. They're unresponsive.

Any ideas on how to get these characters to knock it off?

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