Bed Stuy Patch-From Mean Street, to Clean Sweep

Douglas Jones, executive director of the Bed-Stuy Gateway B.I.D., has only been on the job four months, but already, he has one huge success to his credit: He is cleaning up Fulton Street. “When I came in, folks were really complaining about the lack of cleanliness on Fulton Street,” Jones said. “It was just dirty, everywhere.” Jones went to Atlantic Maintenance, the company that provides cleaning services along Fulton. Atlantic’s annual contract with the BID was up for renewal, but Jones did not feel comfortable renewing the contract before seeing significant improvement. So instead, he retained the company on a trial, month-to-month basis. Immediately, David Goldberg, one of Atlantic’s co-founders, made some personnel changes. And the response is positive. “We’ve been getting a lot of very good feedback,” he said in a phone interview. Click here to read more from Bed Stuy Patch!