Adi Talwar
The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.
What lessons do the 14 detention facilities already in city neighborhoods have for the debate over where to put new ones? Our reporter and a veteran Bronx advocate weighed in on the air.
The city’s announcement of a developer for one site and financing for the first phase of work at another encountered cautious optimism among neighborhood stakeholders.
The city’s framework leaves big questions to answer, forces major issues off the table altogether, and triggers legitimate doubts about the unintended consequences of a rezoning. It also could be a genuine attempt to fashion the neighborhood everyone wants.
‘It is high time that we hold the private sanitation companies responsible not only for their awful practices when collecting waste, but also when dumping and processing waste.’
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