East Siders ‘Trash’ Waste Station at Rally
Hundreds of outraged East Siders turned out to show their opposition to the proposed 91st Street Marine Waste Transfer Station yesterday evening at Asphalt Green.
The garbage site would process more than 5,000 pounds of trash per day with 50-200 trucks passing through the neighborhood on any given day, according to the City.
Sporting signs reading “Don’t Dump On Us” and “Fund schools, Not Garbage”, protestors signed petitions and voiced their overall disdain for a project that would pass next to the Asphalt Green Community Center and within hundreds of yards of the Stanley Isaacs Homes.
Braced for Garbage
For many New Yorkers, contact with trash ends with the slam of a garbage chute door. But the prospect of garbage trucks lining up near parks, classrooms and residential buildings has some Upper East Siders devoting a lot of attention to waste management these days. Residents have long protested the city’s plan to rebuild and reopen the marine waste transfer station at East 91st Street and the FDR Drive, but the announcement that P.S. 151 will have a new home down the block from the site has added urgency to the debate. Read more
