Dozens of the city’s new space-age garbage containers crash-landed in Brooklyn over the last week, marking the latest move by the sanitation department to eradicate mountains of trash bags from sidewalks.

The large, gray bins made by the Spanish company Contenur are a common sight in parts of Upper Manhattan, where the sanitation department has rolled them out over the last year as part of a pilot program. Now, 76 more of the containers have been installed outside 19 schools in Brooklyn's Community Board 2, which includes neighborhoods like Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Downtown Brooklyn.

In the coming months, officials plan to place them in parking spaces outside of large residential buildings in the area.

“ Usually it's a mess of trash and it's just really nasty and smelly over he

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