{"id":791,"date":"2025-07-14T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:35:01","slug":"after-months-of-backlash-city-to-close-concrete-recycling-facility-in-columbia-waterfront-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/07\/14\/after-months-of-backlash-city-to-close-concrete-recycling-facility-in-columbia-waterfront-district\/","title":{"rendered":"After months of backlash, city to close concrete recycling facility in Columbia Waterfront District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/columbia-street-concrete-recycling-to-close\/\">BrooklynPaper<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/author\/kbrendlen\/\">Kirstyn Brendlen<\/a> | Published July 14, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The city will stop operations at a controversial concrete recycling facility in the Columbia Waterfront District next month and close the plant altogether by the end of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Shahana Hanif, who helped spearhead the fight to close the facility, said the decision was a \u201ctestament to the power of local organizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facility\u2019s closure will help improve air quality, reduce truck traffic, and ease noise pollution in an area that has borne environmental burdens for far too long,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s particularly important that we won this outcome outside the context of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Vision Plan proposal. The health of local residents never should have been used as a bargaining chip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City Hall said the recycling facility helped construct sidewalk extensions, pedestrian and bus boarding island, and more; and said DOT will \u201caccommodate\u201d the end of operations on Columbia Street \u201cwhile continuing its concrete construction efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[See full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/columbia-street-concrete-recycling-to-close\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/columbia-street-concrete-recycling-to-close\/\">BrooklynPaper<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/author\/kbrendlen\/\">Kirstyn Brendlen<\/a> | Published July 14, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The city will stop operations at a controversial concrete recycling facility in the Columbia Waterfront District next month and close the plant altogether by the end of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/07\/14\/after-months-of-backlash-city-to-close-concrete-recycling-facility-in-columbia-waterfront-district\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ej-composting","tag-district39-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}