Recent media coverage of NCA’s various projects and related advocacy (updated June 2025): It’s called Blissville, Queens. Residents are in a battle over air quality. Gothamist; June 19, 2025 High pollution levels causing chemical-like smell in Queens Fox 5; June 9, 2025 Lawmakers call for Green Asphalt closure amid air quality concerns in Queens and […]
UPDATE September 15th: On September 9th, NYSDEC received an anonymous tip that has led to identifying a responsible party dumping waste oil into a land side drain that leads straight to Dutch Kills. US Coast Guard as well as an environmental services contractor deployed sorbent and containment booms to contain and remove the dumped oil […]
On October 19th, GMDC, NCA, and Riverkeeper shared the APA New York Chapter Meritorious Achievement Award for their work on the Newtown Creek BOA Nomination Report. The awards ceremony took place at the 2012 APA New York Metro Chapter Fall Conference. This year, the Chapter also honored a group of city agencies – DDC, DOHMH, […]
NCA’s Executive Director Kate Zidar was profiled recently in Grist, as a part of the Change Gang, a series that “profiles people who are leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and a greener planet”. “There’s a huge gap between the way the sewer system chronically malfunctions and the public’s perception of that problem […]
From Sydney Brownstone at L Magazine: “There’s lots of enterococcus in the audience tonight,” Tracy Brown, an advocate at Riverkeeper, a local water quality watchdog, joked to a crowd of roughly 60-70 people who had filed onto benches at the Brooklyn Brewery Monday night. She was referring to the gut bacteria that scientists use as a […]
