Podcasts about newtown creek alliance

New York State has a new law meant to penalize real estate scammers who use fraud, harassment and forgery to steal people's homes from them. Plus, New Jersey's First Lady, Tammy Murphy, is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Menendez. And finally, WNYC's Michael Hill talks with reporter Sophia Chang and Willis Elkins, executive director of the Newtown Creek Alliance, about a highly anticipated project in Brooklyn to convert organic waste into natural gas for heating fuel.

This week Reese, Jasmin and Emily discuss the treatment and expulsion Haitian migrants at the Southern border under a public health law, corruption in local Honduran politics, and they also speak with Lisa Bloodgood of the Newtown Creek Alliance at the top of the hour.

Steve Lang, professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY and the author of “Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront," on the Newtown Creek Alliance.

Willis Elkins, Executive Director of New York’s Newtown Creek Alliance, joins us to talk about the history of Newtown Creek, the lasting impact of the Greenpoint Oil Spill, Combined Sewage Overflow, ongoing clean-up efforts & how local environmental activism ties into global climate justice. Newtown Creek Alliance: http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org@NewtownCreek on Twitter

Coal tar, oil, and used contraceptives are only some of the items routinely found floating on the highly polluted Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek — Brooklyn’s two federal Superfund sites. Though the waterways are only a few miles away from each other, they have vastly different stories.

Combined Sewer Overflow, aka CSO. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one. When it rains, stormwater runoff and human waste combine to overwhelm the city’s sewer system, forcing the liquid to be expelled into New York Harbor and its tributaries.

Katie Schmidt, Mitch Waxman, Kate Zidar, Mai Armstrong, Bill Schuck, Paul Parkhill, Damian Lawyer, David Yassky, Paul Pullo, Mike Dulong, Willis Elkins, Steve Lang, Dorothy Moorehead, Laura Hoffman, Lisa Bloodgood and Dewey Thompson of Newtown Creek Alliance are interviewed by Acacia Thompson on January 16, 2019 on Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Steve Lang talks about the Newtown Creek Alliance, a group of neighborhood activists advocating for environmental rehabilitation and increased recreational use of this notoriously polluted waterway running through Long Island City, Greenpoint, Sunnyside, and East Williamsburg. As you’ll hear, the organization has done much to revitalize this formerly inaccessible Superfund site, but is struggling, like other communities around the world, to reclaim the formerly industrial shoreline without paradoxically closing it off to residents through gentrification. Lang, a sociologist who’s been studying these efforts is a professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

Long Island City and The New Home of Amazon Under the lens, A Journey from Baghdad to Brooklyn, and Music from Nick Demaris This week we have a fully loaded three part show, mixing local Amazon news and analysis, in studio music, and a personal story of escaping war in war ravaged Iraq.First, Newtown Creek Alliance historian Mitch Waxman joins Chilly Underground by phone to offer his analysis and insight into the recent news that Amazon- the worlds largest online retailer- aims to build part of its new headquarters in Long Island City, a region of the city Mitch knows very, very well. As a historian writing for the Newtown Pentacle, Steering committee member of Access Queens, his decades of familiarity with the region, offers a unique multi pronged glimpse into this important community discussion that is just beginning.We then are joined in studio with Nick Demeris, a NYC based artist, musician, and community builder- who offers a brutally intense blend of musical theater which he continually hones throughout the city including in theaters and subway stops near you. We hear about Nick’s creative roots and hear a few of his unique songs that he was kind enough to do for me in studio.Lastly, we take a journey from Baghdad to Brooklyn- we hear from Saif, an Iraqi born accountant who tells us his personal story- spanning life under Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to his 2005 escape from his war torn country, to his journey to Brooklyn. What he misses, what he doesn’t, and what it means to be an American.Listen to Chilly Underground live every Saturday 1pm on Radio RAMPA 620 AMFor more visit: www.ChillyUnderground.com

Newtown Creek Alliance historian Mitch Waxman joins Chilly Underground by phone to offer his analysis and insight into the recent news that Amazon- the worlds largest online retailer- aims to build part of its new headquarters in Long Island City, a region of the city Mitch knows very, very well. As a historian writing for the Newtownpentacle.com, Steering committee member of Access Queens, his decades of familiarity with the region, offers a unique multi pronged glimpse into this important community discussion that is just beginning.Waxman delves into the complexities of the communities toxic ecological past, the challenges to the existing infrastructure, and the concerns Amazon will need to consider as it looks to put down its East Coast corporate roots in Queens. And about those tax incentives? He discusses the economics too.Be sure to subscribe to Chilly Underground on your favorite Podcasting services including iTunes, Spotify, Spreaker.Listen to Chilly Underground live every Saturday 1pm on Radio RAMPA 620 AMFor more visit: www.ChillyUnderground.com