This fall, voters will decide on a minor change to rules governing the location of sewage plants and garbage stations. But environmental advocates and community planners wanted more.
City Limits toured New York City, Yonkers and Newburgh with Community Voices Heard, to see where the stimulus money went and hear where advocates for low-income families believe it should…
The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is designed to handle 60 million gallons of sewage per day.
Photo by: Marc Fader
Projects to upgrade a sewage plant and construct a cement…
Richmond Terrace, the bumpy former cow path that is the main road along Staten Island's North Shore, starts at the St. George Ferry Terminal and winds past dozens of storage…
Once, 170 years ago, there was a factory on Staten Island, and the factory made lead. Some of the lead got into the ground. In the 1920s the factory caught…
During four decades of debate over the causes of black-male joblessness and unemployment, there have been two broad schools of thought. There were those who blamed the problem on the…