Everything’s different in the trash can world these days. For one, the gentrified HBO Sesame Street now makes Oscar the Grouch split time between his trash can and various neighborhood recycling bins. For another, thanks to Anthropologie, you can have your very own “West Village Corrugated Can” for a mere $99.95.
Yes, that’s right—your very own one-hundred dollar piece of genuine imitation Old! New! York! Massive collection of disco on eight-track tapes and war stories about nearly stepping on heroin needles in Alphabet City not included. Perhaps you could buy some off the New Yorkers who’ve said fuck it and bailed for warmer climes and livable rents.