The peninsula-wide cleanup has gotten a head start—on Beach 116th Street. On Wednesday, April 21, more than 20 planters along Rockaway Park’s shopping corridor were spruced up ahead of Saturday’s full cleanup.

“They look so good,” Liz Hanna, who has been spearheading the effort to fix the planters along Beach 116th Street said. “It’s a game changer when you turn down the block and see it.”

On Wednesday morning, crews from Lisena Garden Center were hard at work cleaning out the garbage-filled