De Blasio proceeds with East 91st Street waste facility despite protests
By David Giambusso and Sally Goldenberg
Plans for a controversial waste transfer station on East 91st Street, which were approved under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, are moving forward under Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite continued protests today from local groups opposed to the project.
The new marine transfer station was included in an announcement from City Hall today touting the city's five-borough solid waste management plan. To mitigate quality-of-life concerns, sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia said the city may consider moving a ramp that would take truck traffic into the Upper East Side facility and will install an enforcement monitor to make sure trucks aren't queuing up or endangering pedestrians.
"I do understand why they are concerned," Garcia said of protesters who gathered today at Asphalt Green, a neighborhood fitness facility. "If we could have figured out any other way to do it, we would have, but we are committed to continue engagement with them despite the protests."
Brooklyn Councilman Stephen Levin offered harsher words, calling the protesters "offensive."
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