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Democrat-controlled council July 18, cuts capacity limits on mostly private solid waste transfer stations in North Brooklyn, the South Bronx, and Southeast Queens. Those three areas have 26 of the city’s 38 transfer stations, and those in North Brooklyn alone take in 38 percent of city’s trash. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) is expected to sign the bill, which he endorsed last August. The bill was first proposed more than 10 years ago. A coalition of community and environmental advocates sought its passage, as well as Joint Council 16 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has been fighting the growth of non-union labor in the commercial trash carting industry. Litigation Ahead? But National Waste & Recycling Association members are weighing a legal challenge, Steve Changaris, the association’s New York Chapter manager, told Bloomberg Environment. They are focusing in particular on the council’s environmental assessment, a “negative declaration” stating that no full-blown environmental impact statement would be required for the bill, he said. “We’re concerned whether it met the standards for a negative declaration,” said Changaris, whose group testified against the bill in hearings. The association believes that the law will increase costs and reduce jobs. Its stance should be evaluated as part of the social, economic, and transportation effects that would have to be weighed in a full environmental impact statement... (ash Depots in Low-Income Sections Capped In New York City Bill)
Frieze New York. To meet Harman last week, I took the 5 train to the end of the line and then walked 25 minutes into Westchester, just north of the Bronx. I passed innumerable auto shops, a massive street-salt pile and Saint Paul’s Church, a national historic site that was used as a British Army hospital during the Revolutionary War. (The church tower’s bell, which still hangs there today, was cast in the same foundry as Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and was buried by the parishioners to stop the British from melting it down for ammunition.)I eventually found Harman on a side street, standing next to the skip, assessing the cubic sculpture coming together inside. Built from the detritus found in the dumpster—bits of plywood, surprisingly lovely slabs of marble and so much cardboard—the unfinished piece looked as if it would fit next to any Arte Povera work or example of anarchitecture by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. The rough diagonal line on the front of the work emerged as Harman began to assemble it and discovered that his spirit level was “useless” against the competing slants of the potholed street and the bent steel sides of the dumpster. [embedded content]Kevin Harman working on Skip 16 (2018) in Mt Vernon, New YorkFilm by Christopher L. CookHarman had been labouring in the lugger, without assistants, for 18-hour stretches for two days, staying until at least midnight and relying on a headlamp to see into the container’s tight, dark corners, since the street light above was broken. After clearing out organic materials (decomposing fruit, a bag of coleslaw, half a chicken squashed in tin foil) and scrubbing the dumpster’s inside walls to get rid of any “dribblage contamination” and smelly residues, he set to work creating order out of chaos. Although he sketches out ideas for the structure, he does not know what ... (Art Newspaper)
Manhattan, a report finding that street homeless had spiked, and the assassination of NYPD officer Miosotis Familia in The Bronx in the span of a week.“During those three incidents, you chose not to stay with your city … Instead, you chose to go to Germany to protest,” said Malliotakis. “What kind of person are you? What kind of mayor are you that you would leave your city during a time like that?”De Blasio shot back that Malliotakis wasn’t “familiar with the facts,” noting that he visited the hospital the night of the shooting, and with officers in Familia’s precinct the next day before flying to a protest in Germany against President Trump.“I went to the hospital the night she was shot,” he said. “I was in the room when we had to tell her daughter… that her mother passed away.”Dietl, who spoke at shouting volume, attacked de Blasio for hiring Joe Ponte to head the Department of Correction.Ponte, who hailed from Maine, stepped down months ago after getting embroiled in a scandal involving his personal use of city vehicles and spending 35 workdays outside the state in a single year.“He hired that nincompoop Pompy – Ponte – from Maine. The guy was guarding some mooses up there,” Dietl said, mispronouncing his name at first. “The guy was fishing in Maine while we were paying him on our city cars.”De Blasio hit his opponents for their support of Trump and repeatedly pressed Malliotakis to explain why she backed him.“Did you honestly believe that Donald Trump would be a better president for New York City, for the people of New York City, than Hillary Clinton?” de Blasio demanded.Malliotakis fired back that the election at hand “is not about” Trump and accused de Blasio of trying to divert attention from his “lousy record.”When pressed on Trump again by a debate moderator, Malliotakis... (New York Post)
