Latest Articles Tagged "Environmental Racism"
The weekend ‘walkshops’ are part of a $2 million federally funded study to plot a better future for the highway, which has long been criticized as a scar of environmental racism.
When the member of the City Council drove a hard bargain for more below-market apartments, the builder took a different course.
A ‘poster child for environmental injustice’ is now a popular and beloved green space.
The study seeks to identify remedies for the unequal health outcomes in the largely Black and Latino neighborhoods surrounding the highway.
“The sins of past development can and must be undone," Senator Chuck Schumer said.
"I have kids," said Sanders Mendez, who's been living in Bushwick since 1983. "I can't let them out to play."
The easiest thing for a mayoral candidate to tell a group of angry, NIMBY activists from the Upper East Side is that a planned garbage depot that runs through their neighborhood is an "insane" idea.