Staten Island woman digs through trash to find wallet: DSNY

Erin Pflaumer

March 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) – Sanitation workers helped a Staten Island woman find her lost wallet in the trash, according to the DSNY.

DSNY workers held the truck after the woman called, allowing her to dig through heaps of trash to find the wallet, officials said.

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“She looked for the ‘needle in the haystack’… and success!” the DSNY said on X.

Erin Pflaumer is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered both local and national news since 2018. She joined PIX11 in 2023. See more of her work here.

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