{"id":713146,"date":"2026-04-08T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/713146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:47:37","slug":"see-something-say-something-but-does-311-actually-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/713146\/","title":{"rendered":"See Something, Say Something \u2014 But Does 311 Actually Fix It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hell\u2019s Kitchen residents filed nearly 30,000 complaints in 2025 \u2014 but does NYC\u2019s 311 system actually fix problems or just track them?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all experienced it: walking on the sidewalk and noticing something or other, be it faded crosswalk paint, uneven pavement, or an overflowing trash can, where we think to ourselves, \u201cHuh, someone should tell the City about that.\u201d Then we go on with our days, leaving the problem to sit and fester.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/evan-peng\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cropped-Headshot-120x120.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evan Peng is a journalist based in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen. His work has appeared in POLITICO, Bloomberg, and the Wire China.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/evan-peng\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Evan Peng\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Kitchen residents filed nearly 30,000 complaints in 2025 \u2014 but does NYC\u2019s 311 system actually fix problems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":713147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[85236,5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-713146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-85236","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116368693475561481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}