Protecting the South Bronx from a flooded future
In the wake of torrential rains that have put much of the city on flood watch and disrupted travel in parts of the Bronx, the threat of flooding is increasingly…
Bronxites to city: Slash our trash
Fearing that years of effort to limit the amount of garbage trucked into Hunts Point and Port Morris was about to be lost some 70 local and environmental activists rallied…
Group wants city to toughen waterfront plan
An environmental advocacy group is asking community boards in Mott Haven and other low-income, waterfront neighborhoods across the city to press officials to get tougher on polluters, and to consider…
From the editor: Say no to an incinerator
Twelve years ago, a huge crane pried the stacks off the South Bronx Medical Waste Incinerator on the eastern end of 138th Street where it meets the East River. Hundreds…