Wetlands are a critical environmental resource as climate change causes rising sea levels and more intense coastal storms.
Activists in Bushwick think the increasing popularity of the area is leading to more litter.
An upcoming rezoning has some worried that more residents will clog up the roads in cars and bikes, contributing to more crashes and pedestrian deaths.
Unlike the Gowanus Canal or Newtown Creek, two other Superfund sites in the city, there has been little advocacy or controversy around the site on Irving Avenue.
Brooklyn City Councilmember Justin Brannan discusses his new Committee on Resiliency and the Waterfront and what he believes is the city’s lagging effort to prepare for coastal storms.
Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.
Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.
Activists say 15 cyclists have been killed on the city’s streets so far this year, including three fatalities that took place in one week.
There has been some progress toward making New York City as a whole—and the Resilient Neighborhoods in particular—safer. But much remains undone.
A year and a half after it won City Council approval, a Staten Island development project is stalled thanks to an unsuspecting turtle.
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