Ever since DKN Ready Mix opened in Greenpoint nearly a year ago, neighbors began describing issues with breathing, puffy eyes, itchy throats and loud noise.
Yesterday, there was an incidence of a spike that was higher than the wildfires from last year. So that was some of the worst air quality that we've had in New York City in decades.
We have all these industrial areas around Newtown Creek. And so it's not that this is anti-business. This is being a bad neighbor.
This neighborhood has a long history of being wronged by fossil fuel companies, wronged by companies that have more interest in maximizing their profit than protecting the health and livelihoods of people here.
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