A Rich History of Garbage

 Historical images from New York City’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) will be displayed in the Windows at Kimmel Center (LaGuardia Place between Washington Square South and West 3rd Street) from March 28 through May 5. The above image is of New York City sanitation workers and a foreman in the early 1900s. The pictures were part of an exhibition, “Loaded Out: Making a Museum,” curated by Haidy Geismar, a professor in NYU’s Museum Studies Program and in anthropology, and Robin Nagle, director of NYU’s Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program and the DSNY’s anthropologist-in-residence.