Greenpoint has been plagued with environmental problems going back decades, but a fund established in 2011 helped to mitigate some of that damage.
Now, in celebration of Climate Week, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar recently announced the completion of the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
The fund was created as part of a 2010 settlement with ExxonMobil, responsible for polluting Greenpoint in the one of…
No disrespect to the library and its supporters but that money should’ve 100% been used to improve our public parks and clean up environmental disasters in the area. NYC will never realize it’s full potential with pork and bloat siphoning off crucial funds earmarked for greenspaces.
This library was entirely built for the gentrifiers of the community, who economically removed the white and Hispanic working class residents who most experienced the years of the oil spills. They benefited nothing. They didn’t want a new library: the old one was ugly but fine. They wanted economic reparations, much like the Lenape in their time