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Video taken by Cleanup North Brooklyn allegedly shows workers at a Brooklyn waste transfer facility intimidating a woman whose car was parked near the firm's loading bay entrance.
The Department of Sanitation says it is reviewing claims by a community organization that a Brooklyn waste transfer station violates the law or its city contract on a daily basis. The firm denies the allegations.
Plus, talk of the landlord crackdown, new money for public housing, smoking and the latest on proposed rezonings.
Last week, the Delaware River Basin Commission—whose footprint includes the city’s largest watershed—issued a drought watch. But the agency in charge of New York City’s billion-gallon-a-day water system says its forecasts show there’s little risk of any protracted problem.
We wrap up our ‘Building Justice’ series with a discussion about how to talk about the legacy of a racist policy, and what to do to address it in the new political era that dawns January 20th.
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