Yesterday morning, Mayor Bloomberg and other officials announcing the start of a new garbage era in Brooklyn: The city will export thousands of tons of trash from North Brooklyn by rail instead of by road. Mayor Bloomberg pointed out removing trash by rail will eliminated 40 long haul tractor trailer trips each day (or 13,000 each year), “That’s not only going to help reduce congestion on the borough’s streets and highways, it also will reduce the City’s greenhouse gas emissions and improve the air we breathe - especially in communities that have long been unjustly saddled with handling other people’s waste.” more ›

Disagreements over building a waste transfer station along the waterfront of Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn raised the possibility of dredging up more than just your standard pollution because possibly hundreds of tons of high explosives may be lurking underneath! more ›