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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – More than 100 sidewalks are damaged and dislodged in Queens, and the problem stems from a storm in March. CBS2’s Andrea Grymes took residents’ concerns directly to New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver to demand answers Thursday about when they’ll see repairs. “We know it’s not a pleasant experience for the homeowners,” he said. The Pineda family navigated over and around a busted sidewalk with two little kids, a stroller, a scooter and a ball that just wouldn’t stay put. “It’s definitely crazy, definitely ridiculous. With the carriage, it’s so hard, especially normally I’m by myself,” said Rosemarie Pineda. More: ‘It’s Frustrating:’ Queens Residents Still Dealing With Winter Storm Damage A homeowner at 158 th Street and 29 th Avenue in North Flushing told Grymes a tree near the road came down in a storm back in March, and the sidewalk has been destroyed ever since. She said the city told her it could be two years before a crew comes to fix it. On Wednesday, CBS2 found a damaged sidewalk on the Vigliotti’s front lawn in Beechhurst and another on a corner in North Flushing where concrete slabs were scattered about. “To let it go for four to five months is shameful,” said State Sen. Tony Avella. The Department of Parks and Recreation initially told Grymes it was enlisting the Department of Design and Construction to help with repairs due to the number and the nature of the work. On Thursday, Grymes took photos of the damage to Silver to get more solid answers. “We’re trying to do it as quickly as possible,” he said. “It’s hard to say a timeframe. Again, we’re working with DDC and of course their contractors. So our goal is to fix this problem as soon as possible.” Later, a parks spokesperson sent a statement, saying the department will begin removing any remaining tree trunks this month and expects sidewalk to repairs to begin within the next three weeks, adding “we’ll stay on it.”
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Plastic straws seem to be becoming a thing of the past and Starbucks is joining the trend. The coffee chain announced Monday that it would be eliminating all single-use plastic straws by the year 2020. Instead, Starbucks said it will use a strawless lid that it designed, developed, and manufactured. It will become the standard for all iced coffee, tea, and espresso beverages. New strawless lids from Starbucks. (credit: Starbucks Coffee Company) If you’re bent on still using a straw for your drink, don’t worry, Starbucks says it will begin offering straws made out of alternative material for customers upon request. The company cited environmental threats to the ocean and estimated this move will get rid of more than one billion plastic straws per year. Just a week ago, Seattle banned plastic drinking straws and utensils. Similar proposals are being considered in places like New York and San Francisco. The push to ban plastic straws gained traction after a viral video in 2015 showed rescuers removing a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nose in graphic detail. While plastic drinking straws have become one of the more high-profile environmental issues, they make up only about 4 percent of the plastic trash by number of pieces, and far less by weight. Straws add up to about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in waters around the globe each year. In February, Dunkin’ Donuts said it would eliminate polystyrene foam cups from its stores by 2020. McDonald’s also said this year that it would use only recycled or other environmentally friendly materials for its soda cups, Happy Meal boxes and other packaging by 2025. The strawless lids will begin to appear in Seattle and Vancouver Starbucks this fall, with phased rollouts within the U.S. and Canada next year. A global rollout of the strawless lids will follow, beginning in Europe where they will be used in some stores in France and the Netherlands, as well as in the United Kingdom. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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