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The Newtown Creek Alliance hopes their portable tank of mussels and marsh grass can make a small dent in restoring one of the most polluted waterways in the country.

A giant swath of the Brooklyn waterfront was opened up to high-rise residential buildings. What happened next depends on how much your rent is.

Greenpoint residents expressed their frustrations to state environmental regulators, Green Asphalt and elected officials at a town hall meeting Tuesday.

The facility on the other side of Newtown Creek says its operations haven’t changed in 11 years, but Greenpoint residents say the fumes have become unbearable.

Police are investigating what sparked the gunfire.

The man has stoked a yearslong debate about how to care for New Yorkers with unmet mental health needs.

“Birding is punk,” says the club’s founder, Michael Lombardo.

Local elected officials called on the city to make street safety improvements in the area.

The two-day festival, which starts Saturday, has changed locations, but it still celebrates Black music and culture, while embracing full-throated individuality.

For community members living near the creek, who are affected daily by all of the industrial toxins released around it, the delay is unacceptable.