Nos Quedamos hosts first annual youth symposium in the South Bronx
On a recent Saturday morning in Mott Haven, Leila Tazi, who works as an environmental organizer at Brooklyn College, was among a group of climate activists speaking to an auditorium…
Cross Bronx Expressway expansion plan derided by local groups
A plan to expand the Cross-Bronx Expressway through a mile-long ‘connector’ road has incensed South Bronx activists, many of whom have long been involved in projects to reduce the environmental…
Indignation and hope at town hall on climate change
When The Point CDC’s Climate Justice Hub Advocate asked the assembly in a church meeting room if they had experienced high pollution in their Bronx neighborhoods, more than half raised…
Mott Haven residents celebrate as waterfront plan seeks federal grant
At the very end of Lincoln Avenue, between the Willis and Third Avenue bridges, hidden behind trucks from the waste treatment plants and FreshDirect headquarters, 30 people gathered on September…
Partnership that tracks flooding citywide is now in the South Bronx
A flood sensor may be coming to a street near you. FloodNet, a partnership that brings communities, research organizations and city government together to cope with flooding across New York…
Op-Ed: Rethinking the neoclassical economic paradigm and capitalism in an environmental justice context
In an economics class I took while studying at SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry School (ESF) in the 1990s, I learned about theories about society’s use of natural…
Residents push for action on decades-old toxic spill in Melrose
Community urges state to ramp up clean-up efforts and boost transparency. Contamination at the site of a…