Topic
Environmental Justice & Health
The industrial history of Greenpoint and Williamsburg is bound to North Brooklyn's environmental challenges. Currently our work focuses on air quality, legacy toxins, toxic sites (like Superfunds & Brownfields), and trash & waste.
Projects
6 ResultsTrash & Waste
Reducing Single-Use Plastic
As of March 1, 2020, plastic bags are banned at most stores in the state of New York. This regulation comes after years of advocacy…
Air Quality
Clean Buses for Healthy Niños
In New York City, more than 10,000 school buses provide transportation for almost 150,000 students, the majority of whom have disabilities. However, many of these…
Legacy Toxins
Strengthening Our Common Ground: Lead in Soil in Greenpoint
Elevated blood lead levels are serious health risks for children. In recent years, the city has worked to reduce the number of children with high…
Air Quality
Neighborhood Air Monitoring Initiative
North Brooklyn, particularly Williamsburg, has historically had some of the highest asthma rates in New York City. As a waste transfer hub, with the Brooklyn…
Toxic Sites
NuHart Superfund Site
In 2010, a former plastics manufacturing site in northern Greenpoint was classified by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as a Class 2…
Trash & Waste
Commercial Waste Zones
North Brooklyn is home to an outsized share of waste transfer stations and other waste infrastructure. Trucks transporting commercial waste currently drive all over NYC…
Events
28 Results
ELI Project Virtual Launch
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Link TBD
Environmental Justice & Health Working Group
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Environmental Justice & Health Working Group Meeting
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Brooklyn, NY
News & Media
18 Results
NBN #SaveOurCompost City Council Testimony
North Brooklyn Neighbors submitted testimony to the City Council in response to the FY2021 executive budget’s proposed cuts to the organic recycling program. Please find…
Comments Nassau Works MGP Site
In February 2020, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation released a proposed remedial action plan (PRAP) for the Nassau Works MGP site located at the…
Response to City Cuts to Organics Recycling
The City is suspending curbside organics collection on May 4, 2020 for at least 14 months further dismantling its organics recycling efforts. We call on…
Comments on the National Grid Rate Case (19-01093)
North Brooklyn Neighbors submitted comments to the Public Service Commission (PSC) in opposition to National Grid’s proposed rate increase for customers in Brooklyn and Queens….