Warmer Weather Brings Troublemakers to a Green Stretch of Queens
At over 100 acres, Highland Park's prime location on a plateau that separates Queens and Brooklyn gives local residents and families space to enjoy some sunshine and fresh air. However, reporter...
View ArticleAn Environmental Cleanup In a New Jersey Polish Enclave
A Polish enclave in Garfield City, N.J. where an electroplating company spilled more than 3,600 gallons of carcinogenic chromium in 1983 has become a "Superfund" high-priority environmental...
View ArticleOutrage Over Plans For a Bensonhurst Marine Trash-Transfer Station
Residents in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn are outraged by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s green light to build a marine trash-transfer station in the area, reports...
View ArticlePoles in Rockaways Defenseless Against Sandy
Poles describe to Nowy Dziennik the horrors left behind by Hurricane Sandy as they pick up the pieces of their stores and lives in this corner of Queens that is home to some 4,000 Polish immigrants.
View ArticleHome Care Attendants Put Patients Over Selves During Hurricane
Two home attendants lost power and water but the elderly patients became their priority, the World Journal reported. In the dark, they struggle to give them hot food and to carry water up many flights...
View ArticleIsraeli Army Volunteers Struck by Devastation and Lack of Gov’t Help
A group of 12 Israeli army volunteers, veterans of war zones and relief operations, were shocked at the absence of government assistance they have found in Brooklyn, reports the The Jewish Daily Forward.
View ArticleWillets Point Community Faces off with Developers
Plans for hotels and shopping centers by CitiField and surrounding Willets Point has riled community advocates and immigrants, who met with contractors and representatives to question the lack of...
View ArticleThree Months On, Still Struggling After Sandy
Residents and businesses in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island continue to rebuild their livelihoods three months after Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of it. The community and ethnic press looks at...
View ArticlePutting the ‘Green’ Back in Greenpoint
Greenpoint residents are encouraged to submit proposals on how to spend the $19.5 million from ExxonMobil for environmental projects. Residents gathered to review and discuss ideas submitted to date,...
View ArticleNo Welcome Mat for FreshDirect in the Bronx
FreshDirect's plan to build new headquarters in the Mott Haven has a good and a bad side, but neighbors rather have a full environmental impact study to evaluate how the added traffic and pollution...
View ArticleChild Immigrant Turned Pulitzer Winner
Sing Tao Daily profiles InsideClimate News' Lisa Song, the 26-year-old Boston-based Pulitzer Prize winner whose celebration of the award was cut short by the bombings. A background of immigrating at 6,...
View ArticleChinese Answer Call for Help After Earthquake
A round-up of Chinese newspapers on the Sichuan earthquake indicate the rapid response of local immigrants and organizations when it comes to donating money and helping with relief efforts in the...
View ArticleStill Not Home Six Months After Sandy
With yesterday marking the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Rockaway-based publication The Wave and Gotham Gazette report on the impact that displacement has had on residents, neighborhoods...
View ArticleFrom Vieques and Beyond, NY Boricuas Fight for Home from Afar
El Diario-La Prensa looks at the fight to push the U.S. Navy out of Vieques – which succeeded a decade ago this week – and involved many New Yorkers, including Melissa Mark-Viverito, Adolfo Carrión and...
View ArticleSouth Bronx Activist: ‘Being Involved Here is the Happiest I’ve Ever Been’
After moving to the South Bronx about 30 years ago, Troy Lancaster started his own protest: "To create beauty" out of the "ugliness that was left behind" from the 1970s. He started cleaning up and...
View ArticlePollution, Congestion Fears Over FreshDirect’s Move to South Bronx
Online grocer FreshDirect’s plans to relocate to Port Morris in the South Bronx has generated opposition from local community members. Passions ran high during the first contact between FreshDirect,...
View ArticleBronx Pols Dispute Pro-Fracking Allegations
A new report by a non-profit has identified 13 Bronx politicians in the state assembly and senate who received campaign funds from organizations supporting fracking, the controversial method to extract...
View ArticleControversial Rockaway Pipeline OK’d By Feds
Feds say the 3.2 mile natural gas pipeline through the Rockaways is safe but local environmentalists worry, reports The Wave.
View ArticleNabes Most Vulnerable to Storms, Lost in the Wind
In an investigative report, Gotham Gazette in conjunction with AdaptNY explored the disconnect between local community boards and city government in preparing for destructive storms like Sandy.
View ArticleA Year After Sandy, Still Poor, Displaced
As the first year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaches, El Diario-La Prensa reports on Latinos in Staten Island and New Jersey who are far from recovered. One family left their native Honduras...
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