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Affordable Housing

Brooklyn Community Gardeners React to De Blasio Admin. Deal

Cole Rosengren | January 4, 2016

For months volunteers at dozens of community gardens have wondered which ones might be targeted for affordable housing. Our partners at Brooklyn Deep were in the room when gardeners learned the fate of their neighborhood plots.

Budget

City Aims for Zero Waste, but Inks Long-Term Deal with Upstate Landfill

Cole Rosengren | November 17, 2015

The $3.3 billion, 20-year plan to send Brooklyn garbage to the Seneca Meadows landfill illustrates the growing costs of burying trash.

Health and Environment

City’s Reforms to Private Waste-Hauling Hit Delays

Cole Rosengren | October 1, 2015

A highly anticipated city study of commercial waste collection has been delayed, putting off any decision about a new franchise zoning system and ensuring that the fight over the industry’s future is far from over.

Affordable Housing

Bed-Stuy is Focus of Concerns Over Fate of Community Gardens

By Brooklyn Deep | July 15, 2015

The city has identified 181 small city-owned sites for potential affordable-housing development. Eighteen currently have community gardens on them. Ten of those gardens are in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

New York's Trash Challenge

To Meet Waste Goals, NYC Needs to Scrap How it Thinks About Garbage

Cole Rosengren | May 22, 2015

The scene at the former Fresh Kills landfill, of beautiful scenery built about decades of bad trash policy, gives reason for optimism that the city will find a way to deal with the rising costs of managing waste. But it will take a change in mindset, not just policy.

Bill de Blasio

City Composting Effort Will Reduce Waste, But Needs Room

Cole Rosengren | May 21, 2015

New York is diverting more and more organic material like food waste from landfills to composting projects. The big challenge might not be collecting the stuff, but figuring out where to put it all.

Bill de Blasio

NYCHA Recycling Under Scrutiny

Cole Rosengren | May 20, 2015

Poor facilities have discouraged NYCHA residents from recycling for years. While some tenants took matters into their own hands and the de Blasio administration promises a better approach, one environmental group is taking steps toward a lawsuit.

Health and Environment

Single-Stream Recycling: Simple for Residents, Complex for the City

Cole Rosengren | May 20, 2015

Mayor de Blasio wants to spare residents the hassle of separating paper from glass, metal and plastic. The move will likely boost recycling but its impact on city finances, commercial carters and total waste levels is hard to predict.

City Council

City Weighs Reining in Private Garbage Collectors

Cole Rosengren | May 19, 2015

Waste from New York’s businesses is not picked up by DSNY but by a industry of for-profit companies who, critics say, serve inefficient routes and treat their workers poorly.

Bill de Blasio

New York’s Garbage System Faces Mounting Challenges of Cost, Carbon and Equity

Cole Rosengren | May 18, 2015

Mayor de Blasio has proposed ambitious reforms to address some of the problems caused by the 6 million tons of trash New Yorkers produce each year. But the way to a better waste system will not be easy.

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