{"id":513,"date":"2024-11-25T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=513"},"modified":"2024-12-06T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:04:03","slug":"brooklyn-residents-say-recycling-concrete-should-not-involve-breathing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/11\/25\/brooklyn-residents-say-recycling-concrete-should-not-involve-breathing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Residents Say Recycling Concrete Should Not Involve Breathing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/recycling-concrete-dust-columbia-waterfront-district\/\">Hell Gate<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/author\/max\/\">by Max Rivlin-Nadler<\/a> 4:04 PM EDT on November 25, 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of the sliver of land that borders Red Hook and Cobble Hill aren&#8217;t<br \/>strangers to heavy industry. Their neighborhood, also known as the Columbia<br \/>Waterfront District, is sandwiched between commercial piers and the<br \/>Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Their streets carry plenty of big trucks belching<br \/>noxious fumes from the nearby shipping terminal and Amazon distribution<br \/>centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re used to heavy trucks, traic stretching down the block, the rumbling,&#8221;<br \/>John Leyva, who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, told Hell Gate.<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen garbage trucks, the DOT parking heavy machinery, we&#8217;re just kind<br \/>of stuck between all these other neighborhoods that don&#8217;t want none of that on<br \/>their streets.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even amidst all this industrial activity, a new concrete recycling facility,<br \/>located at the intersection of Kane Street and Columbia Street, stood out for<br \/>blowing potentially toxic dust all over the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The dust was all over the place, on windy days it looked like a hail storm,&#8221;<br \/>Leyva said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/recycling-concrete-dust-columbia-waterfront-district\/\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/recycling-concrete-dust-columbia-waterfront-district\/\">Hell Gate<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/author\/max\/\">by Max Rivlin-Nadler<\/a> 4:04 PM EDT on November 25, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the sliver of land that borders Red Hook and Cobble Hill aren&#8217;t<br \/>strangers to heavy industry. Their neighborhood, also known as the Columbia<br \/>Waterfront District, is sandwiched between commercial piers and the<br \/>Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Their streets carry plenty of big trucks belching<br \/>noxious fumes from the nearby shipping terminal and Amazon distribution<br \/>centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/11\/25\/brooklyn-residents-say-recycling-concrete-should-not-involve-breathing-it\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}