Issue Two

Issue 2 focuses on NYC Municipal Solid Waste policy, which resulted in most of NYC’s residential and commercial garbage traveling in trucks to private waste transfer stations in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Williamsburg’s Latino and Hasidic communities united to fight a huge waste-to-energy incinerator proposed for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and brought environmental groups, activists and artists into the Community Alliance For the Environment (CAFE.) Neighborhood activists fought an outdated garbage incinerator in Greenpoint from the 1960’s until it was finally closed in 1994. Radiac, a low-level radioactive waste transfer facility that also stores hazardous, toxic and flammable waste persists on Kent Avenue and Grand Street, despite intensive community opposition.