City Beats Challenge on East River Waste Center
By Special to the Sun | June 21, 2007
For the second time in a year, the city has fended off a lawsuit challenging its plan to build a waste transfer station on East 91st Street and the East River.
Upper East Side residents, joined by an East Harlem assemblyman, Adam Clayton Powell IV, filed the suit, claiming that the city had not done a thorough environmental assessment of the center's construction.
But New York County Supreme Court Judge Michael Stallman ruled that the city had complied with state law by taking a "hard look" at the areas of environmental concern, the city announced yesterday.
The garbage center is a part of Mayor Bloomberg's plan to manage the city's trash and recyclables for the next twenty years.
