2026 spring cleanup in Manhattan set for April 6-10 | News
Manhattan’s annual Spring Cleanup Week is coming up, with collections each week day. City crews will collect yard…
‘Cocaine sharks’ found cruising the Caribbean
This puts the “white” in “Great White.” Move over “Cocaine Bear.” Brazilian scientists have discovered traces of nose…
Sunset Park is building a community-led climate future
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Turns Out NYC’s Congestion Pricing Is Working Quite Well
New Yorkers grumbled when the fees arrived, but the numbers suggest they may be grumbling in faster…
Don’t be salty: Why New York wants you to rethink rock salt this winter
DEC encourages New Yorkers to minimize rock salt use to reduce pollution of waterways To help protect water…
Trendy NYC area unplugs nose as asphalt plant shutters, killing ‘Greenpoint Stink’
Locals were finally able to unplug their noses this weekend after a Greenpoint asphalt recycling center famous for…
$1.7 billion Hunts Point Access Improvement Project completed after 6 years, promising safer streets – Bronx Times
Joined by several Bronx elected officials, State DOT Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez announced completion of the Hunts Point…
Hochul Buys Time on Pollution Rules
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Ahead of first public hearing for $900 million Cross Bronx bridge project, advocates press NYS for more time – Bronx Times
The state will hold the first of three public hearings Wednesday to discuss its plan to rehab five…
See dumping, get fine money |
You can help fight rats by being one. That’s not how the Department of Sanitation would put it,…
Sante Scardillo swims in Red Hook channel every day
A Little Italy man with a taste for thrills has turned the polluted and Staten Island Ferry-littered waters…
NYC ‘bounty hunters’ making almost $1M apiece reporting idling trucks are professionals, live in posh enclaves
The street snitches who have raked in up to nearly $1 million apiece reporting idling trucks to the…