New York City Sanitation Department architect Mike Friedlander “is to receive a special award from the city’s Art Commission ‘for the quality of design that he consistently brings to the Department of Sanitation’s capital projects.’ … It is nice to be acknowledged, given that Mr. Friedlander is far more accustomed to having to defend his projects. He said it was not easy convincing community boards that anything having to do with garbage would not necessarily be an eyesore or a smelly blight on the neighborhood.”