Residents in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood worry about the dust and noise pollution caused by a city-owned concrete recycling plant opened last year. They report that the dust blankets homes, streets, and cars, disrupting their daily lives. The plant, which moved from Red Hook to accommodate an offshore wind hub, is inadequately addressed by the city, according to local officials. Lawmakers have committed to improvements but residents are calling for the plant's shut down due to ongoing health concerns and lack of communication prior to its relocation.
Angry neighbors say they were never warned or even informed about the rock crushing plant moving in next door, so they reached out to lawmakers like Councilmember Shahana Hanif.
We have gotten a commitment from them that they're installing an irrigation system in some time in February. That's one year after this site opened. That is unacceptable.
The city has tried. It has not gone far enough. And so the neighborhood rightfully is saying, 'Well, if you can't fix it, then just shut it down.'
Collection
[
|
...
]