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Last season, the city’s 25 beaches saw a total of 244 closures, either because water quality exceeded the city’s safety standards—determined by testing for the bacteria found in fecal matter—or…

ByMariana Simões

ByRyan Pullido 1Comment

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Sep 2022

Opinion: NYC’s Aging Water Infrastructure Needs a Climate-Change Upgrade

“Water main breaks have caused outages across my community and contamination from old pipes have left homes with rust colored water for days…The people of New York City deserve functioning…

ByShahana Hanif 1Comment

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Three Gowanus Rezoning Viewpoints Take Stage at Marathon Public Hearing

Reluctant supporters say the 82-block upzoning proposal is flawed, but will nonetheless create thousands of below-market rate apartments. Others are demanding the plan includes funding for nearby NYCHA demands, while…

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Sep 2020

Uncategorized

COVID-19 Could Slow City’s Efforts to Curb Water Pollution

The de Blasio administration has asked state regulators to ease deadlines for fixing its sewage system.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jan 2020

Climate and Environment

City Due to Present Plan to Curb Pollution in its Open Waters

DEP’s plan will cover the Hudson, Harlem and East Rivers, Upper and Lower New York Bay, Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull, and western Long Island Sound.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Nov 2019

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Gowanus Groups Pressing for Specifics as Rezoning Review Nears

As large real-estate deals continue to close, neighborhood stakeholders have raised some unresolved concerns.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Feb 2019

Housing and Homelessness

City Says Bay Street Rezoning Could ‘Bring all the Pieces of the Puzzle Together’

But the plan faces a host of questions abut affordability, small business protections, traffic, parks and drainage.

BySadef Ali Kully 3Comments

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Jan 2019

Climate and Environment In Depth Investigations

New York’s Sewer Overflows Could be Contributing to Climate Change

Research suggests that pollutants from untreated sewage reduce the capacity of local wetlands to absorb carbon and mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases.

ByAvery Miles 5Comments

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Dec 2018

Video

Video: New Phase in Long Push to Clean Up New York City’s Waterways

After spending billions on reducing water pollution and promising to spend even more to make New York’s rivers, canals, bays and creeks cleaner, the city is about to embark on…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Nov 2018

Uncategorized