'Talking Trash' Report Slams NYC's Expensive and Environmentally Outdated Garbage Plan
Matthew Chapman
For the first time in a decade-long fight against a garbage site slated to be built in surreal proximity to public housing, a report has been published that exposes not just the absurdity of this one site, but the absurdities and weaknesses of the entire plan it is a part of.
"Talking Trash" should be read not just by politicians and journalists, but by all New Yorkers, in fact by anyone who is interested in the environment.
The 91st Street Marine Transfer Station -- the spark that set off this inquiry -- is routinely described by reporters as being "in the Upper East Side." Usually, they'll then go on to say that the only people who will suffer from it are rich white people.
As you can see from the report's map and table below, it is actually four blocks shy of East Harlem and is being built in front of public housing.
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