Turns out City Hall’s bark is much worse than its bite. Despite months of Doomsday predictions, the city budget agreement reached last week ended up relatively pain-free, as most threatened…
Eight years of Giuliani is enough to turn anyone into a would-be urban planner. But as the new slew of candidates takes on the city’s toughest choices, they may regret…
One of the biggest and best buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront will soon be converted from manufacturing space into 184 Soho-priced studio apartments–even though local residents have pushed to keep…
Neighborhood environmental justice groups have labored in obscurity for years, picketing polluters and tilting at transfer stations. Now, as national evironmental organizations are eyeing their street-level work, some wonder whether…
In neighborhoods hit hard by asthma, the faith is fierce that environmental injustice is the culprit. New research, though, blames everything from vinyl floors to TV and Big Macs. What…
As the city moves to dump its garbage on Red Hook, the beleaguered neighborhood fights back–with a little help from its friends up and down the waterfront.
When Browning Ferris Industries closed its South Bronx medical waste incinerator in June 1997, locals celebrated their victory. But the party may have been premature.