The Issue: Speaker Christine Quinn’s continued support for a waste-transfer station on the East Side.
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is not standing up for principle when she says she will not change her stance on a marine transfer station at East 91st Street (“Quinn’s Trash Talk,” Editorial, Feb. 26).
She is trampling on the lives of 2,000 low-income residents of the Holmes and Stanley Isaacs NYCHA Housing Complex, one of the largest public-housing facilities in the city, which will be adjacent to the dump.
Quinn is impacting the health of more than 40,000 participants to the Asphalt Green athletic facilities — New Yorkers ranging from toddlers to seniors across every socio-economic group.
What is planned for Gansevoort is a recycling center. A dump with trucks and barges at work 24 hours a day, six days a week is far from what is proposed for Quinn’s own district.
She is hiding behind “environmental justice” and “borough equity,” but her principles are misguided.
Jed Garfield
President
Residents for Sane
Trash Solutions
Manhattan
Any official, whether elected or unelected, who so knowingly and willfully puts the health and safety of an entire neighborhood at risk for his or her own political gratification is simply not fit for office.
Quinn’s adamant refusal to acknowledge legitimate neighborhood concerns or to be the least bit conciliatory during the forum was appalling.
But it revealed how she might govern if elected mayor.
Her passing reference to post-Sandy “structural changes” that would be made to the facility plans was not credible. As is, the facility will undoubtedly end up over-budget.
Jay Vleeschhouwer
Manhattan
Has The Post gone to the site to see why this waste-transfer station’s location is causing community outrage?
This is a residential community, not an area of industrial or commercial business, like the other WTS locations.
Families from all levels of income surround this proposed WTS. Children play on Asphalt Green’s field right next to the planned queue of garbage trucks. Have you ever smelled the odor from just one truck? Multiply that.
It used to be a playground area blighted with rats and drug dealers until Asphalt Green was developed, so why go in reverse?
Building a WTS in an area designated as a storm evacuation zone is as smart as building on a Californian fault line.
Beth Schlansky
Manhattan