Eyesore and Photo of the Week (4/5/11)

Volunteers meet on Sunday mornings to clean up the street stairs at 181st Street and Pinehurst.  Last Sunday, the volunteers were struggling to remove plastic shopping bags from the trees.  Cities like San Francisco have banned or severely restricted use of these common supermarket bags.  (But I have a hard time imagining New Yorkers, who rarely drive to the supermarket, using paper bags to cart their groceries home.)