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29 août 2014
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Bénédicte Florin, « There’s a Trash Museum in this NYC Sanitation Garage on the Upper East Side », Sociétés urbaines et déchets, ID : 10.58079/um6k
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Hidden on the second floor of an East Harlem sanitation garage lies one of New York City’s most fascinating art galleries. This carefully curated assortment of oddities is not the work of any acclaimed art collector though. Instead, this breath-taking collection of odds and ends, named “The Treasures in the Trash Museum,” was compiled by a sanitation worker over the course of 33 years on the job. In other words, this is a museum full of trash. (...) Although sanitation workers are normally f...