Closing a dirty generating plant in Murray Hill means Con Ed will open a new one on 14th Street. But local residents argue that the new plant won’t be clean enough.
Angered by an outsider’s plans, Bed-Stuy’s community board argued that the neighborhood already had its fair share of facilities, but a judge disagreed.
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