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Bronx River plan to abate the combined sewer overflow consent decree

What can we say? The DEP put forth yet another stellar (not really) plan for Clean Water on the Bronx River. With excuses like, Westchester County pollutes the river; we can not use Green roofs as we...

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Kingsbridge Armory comments to the CPC and EDC

Below is our testimony in a letter signed by our President, Ira Charles Leveberg Engel, sent October 16th to the City Planning Commission and the Economic Development Corporation from BCEQ concerning...

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Bronx Parks Speak Up: Sat., February 27

Bronx Parks Speak Up! Open Spaces, Environment and Health Presentations Energy Efficiency Harlem River Working Group Shape Up NY Workshops Rain Water Harvesting Organic Growing Techniques Worm Bins...

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Program Water Conference, March 17th

PROGRAM “Examining Harlem River Water Quality: Imputs, Effects and Solutions” Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at Manhattan College, Leo Engineering Building 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Main Auditorium: GENERAL...

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Comments on CSO and Green Infrastructure 11.18.11

Here is some of what we submitted: Green Infrastructure (GI) has to be incorporated into the Long Term Control Plans in a meaning and measurablemanner. While this plan goes a long way toward that goal,...

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Fresh Direct Deal cuts the Harlem and Bronx Rivers Greenway

BCEQ members signed onto a letter to elected officials:  FreshDirect Letter 021312 BCEQ HRWG The hearing is today at 10 am, Chauncy is going and you can watch it on your computer. (Meetings will be...

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BCEQ Statement on FreshDirect and the South Bronx

Since 1971, the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) has been in the forefront of battles to protect The Bronx Ecology. The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) joins in formally...

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From other pens: Opposition to FreshDirect Project Grows to 34 Organizations

Opposition to FreshDirect Project Grows to 34 Organizations Sustainable South Bronx, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality and Green Worker Cooperatives Release Independent Policy Statements Against...

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Mott Haven Herald: River cleanup may point way to new park, 092813

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS River cleanup may point way to new park By Jenna O’Donnell on September 28, 2013 3:19 pm With pop-up wetland comes new effort to open Harlem shore Pier 5 on the Harlem River just...

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2013 Regional Open Space Advisory Committee Report – NYC Region 2

Excerpts from the draft report, there has been no hearings scheduled since June 2013.  Presented below is only the Bronx notes.  To read the full report, including the notes on the Bronx, please find...

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HR BOA Step 2 Steering Committee #4 on 072215

We held HR BOA Step 2 Steering Committee #4 on July 22, 2015.  The purpose was to discuss the draft of the Step 2 Nomination Report, Stategic Sites/Connections, and selected Conceptual Designs...

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BCEQ Five Point Demand for the Harlem River

Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) sends a Five Point Demand Letter to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Harlem River Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) for...

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Clean the Harlem River Watershed Conference Wed. March 22 from 3-7 pm

Whether you live or work in the Harlem River Watershed, you are invited to join the conversation about how we can Clean the Harlem River. You are invited to the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality...

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Using Parkland to build Housing – only in the Bronx!!!

Waterfront parkland for private use – if they get it in the South Bronx, you will get it too! An Open Letter to the Public: For more than twenty years, city leaders have twisted the arms of local...

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BCEQ’s Comments to Bx CB 4 on Using Parkland for Housing

You can read it below, or you can download a copy:  BCEQ Letter to CB 4 Pier 5 DGEIS 042517 If you want to send comments to the CB, Individual Letter to CB 4 Pier 5 DGEIS 042517  is a letter for you to...

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BCEQ Leaders Meet with Speaker’s Land Use Staff on Saving Pier 5

May 3, 2017 BCEQ Leaders Meet with Speaker’s Staff to Save Parkland in the BCEQ Designated Brownfield Opportunity Area Leadership of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, joined by leaders from...

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Parking Lots for Housing not Parks

At the May 10, 2017 monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, the issues concerning the City’s proposal to build housing and other mixed uses on parkland...

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BCEQ Comments on the Mayor’s proposal to take Pier 5

Below find our comments and attachment. The attachment is the Freedom of Information Requests we had to make to get the truth from the administration. They really pulled it out of the hands of the...

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Stories about Lower Concourse North Gentrification aka Pier 5

De Blasio Housing Plan Seeks Land Promised as Yankees Replacement Park City Hall says expansion of Bronx green space was never a formal commitment by PATRICK ARDEN SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 A decade has passed...

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Council Hearing on Pier 5 Parkland aka Lower Concourse North

September 25 Hearing on Pier 5 aka Lower Concourse North aka Bronx Point. The Pier 5 part starts around 23 minutes in.  Minutes from the hearing: Minutes 092517 Pier 5 At the same time as this hearing...

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