Stinking Up Gifford Miller's Neighborhood

Yeah, there's already a station on East 91st street, one of three or four in Manhattan, and this article is talking about renovating and reopening it.

This has been part of the Mayor's proposal for a while...but I'm pretty sure that until now, the plan had been to use that station for recyclables only, because of political difficulties with running trucks full of stinky solid waste through the UES. Guess he changed his mind about that.

hmm, that article doesn't seem to mention anything about the fact that there is already a garbage transfer station at 91st, right next to Alsphalt Green. would this one be replacing that one? and if its a new one, where exactly do they think it will go?

As long as Woody Allen continues to crank out tripe like "Anything Else" the Upper East Side is producing more waste than it has any reasonable right to.

Hey, guess what? If you make the trash, you should have to deal with it.

Unless the UES has become so advanced that it has achieved 100% recycling, it is a producer of waste. As a consequence, it should be required to bear the burden of its own waste transfer (and transfer is all we are talking about here, it's not an incinerator, for crissakes!).

Of course, most Manhattanites no doubt believe that their island is too important to be defiled with their own filth, and lament the loss of the outer boroughs as a dumping ground for their refuse.

As stated above, the transfer station in question already exists; it had merely been unused for a period of time. Screw Carl Schurz Park, the East River Esplanade, and Asphalt Green too - hold your noses, swells, the same way you expected Staten Islanders to for the past half-century.

Well, this is going to be a big stinking political mess all around. I can only think of one section of waterfront suitable for such a station. It's in Manhattan. No one would miss it because it's already inaccessible to New Yorkers. No schools, no residents, and no voting constituents.

The garbage transfer station is already in place, has been for years, just does not operate. It was probably there before Giff Miller was born, before many local coop and condo residents bought in. Is it a real shock that the city want to reopen it? Where does Miller propose his trash go instead?

Maybe instead of disturbing the tender sensibilities on the Upper East Side we could just build a perpetual refuse bonfire at Ground Zero. It might even show up in one of those cool satellite photos.

It will be an issue wherever you put it. I live in Brooklyn, "South Slope" and would personally love to even have access to the water. There are very few spots to get a good view, (the Heights, which is far,) much less jog on. Depending on the wind, I get fumes from the refineries blowing up my street. So I guess I would just say, be grateful for what you have. Oh yeah, and screw the UES. Snobby old bittys could use a little sh*t smell. Hehehe.

Oh yeah, I lived in Greenpoint for years, so I know all about sh*t smells. Rainy days were the worst.

If Bloomberg actually lived in Gracie Mansion, he would know he was proposing a waste transfer station 150 feet from his front yard. This is really a terrible idea that would be a serious blight on the East River Esplanade, specifically the Bobby Wagner Walk, which is really the only way for New Yorkers on the East Side to enjoy the waterfront. The majority of people I see who use this greenway above Carl Schurz Park are residents of Spanish Harlem, who tend to fish and gather socially in the narrow strip of habitable park between the river and the FDR drive. NYC Parks has done some amazing work beautifying this stretch of waterfront over the past several years; it would be a shame for Bloomberg to take a huge dump on it now.

Too Funny. What a way to Make Friends and influence people...