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Back Stories: NYC Sanitation Strike Makes For Stinky Situation

/ CBS New York

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- It was a stinky situation in the winter of 1968, when New York City sanitation workers went on strike for more than a week.

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Former WCBS reporter Gary Maurer covered the strike and remembers walking the streets of Queens with former Mayor John Lindsay as the garbage piled up.

First published on March 15, 2017 / 12:01 AM EDT

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