The EPA let New York State use outdated standards in approving the city’s plans to finally deal with pollution from sewer overflows that taint rivers and bays, canals and creeks, advocates say.
Local officials and the EDC say the strategy they unveiled this week reflects a healthy amount of community input. But it’s still unclear whether the city’s rezoning pitch will ease or exacerbate some of the community’s deepest concerns.
As community boards around the city react to the de Blasio administration’s push for broad rezonings of whole neighborhoods, at least one community board is aiming to fix a flaw in the plans of an earlier mayor.
Published on Jun 29, 2017
The Make the Road New York organizer talks about the neighborhood around the Bay Street corridors, the planning process so far and how the North Shore’s working class communities of color fit in to the long-standing tensions between the Island and the four other boroughs.
New York City’s values have perhaps never been further from the national agenda being pushed by President Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress.
