New York City street cleaning 311 requests

Street Cleaning 311 requests filed in New York City since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 30, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026

Source data: Open data ↗

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Total Requests

236.5K

in the street cleaning category

Latest Month

5.3K

April 2026

Share of total

1.4%

of all New York City 311 requests

Median Resolution

1.2d

half of requests close faster

Monthly street cleaning requests

How many street cleaning 311 requests New York City residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.

In New York City’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as street cleaning:

  • Dirty Condition

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <new_york_city_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Dirty Condition'
)

Analyst tip: Austin uses 'ARR - Street Sweeping' (Austin Resource Recovery — the sanitation department). Calgary has both 'Roads - Debris on Street/Sidewalk/Boulevard' and 'WRS - Debris in Backlane'. NYC's 'Dirty Condition' lands here. Oakland uses 'CUT_CLEAN' and 'STREETSW'.

See how street cleaning is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from New York City’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.cityofnewyork.us.