[CPEO-BIF] Harlem River, New York City

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Planning a River's Renaissance

By JAMES FERGUSSON
Norwood News (Bronx, NY)
April 19 - May 2, 2007

For decades, community leaders and environmentalists have dreamed of 
cleaning up the Harlem River, and renovating its underutilized eastern 
shoreline. It's quite a dream.

The eight-mile waterway is polluted; its shoreline, on which factories 
and power plants once stood, is presumed to be one large brownfield 
(land whose redevelopment is complicated by environmental hazards).

But in recent years there have been pockets of progress along the 
water's edge. River Plaza Shopping Center, with its Target and 
Starbucks, opened on a former industrial site in Marble Hill in 2004. In 
Morris Heights, Roberto Clemente State Park is on the cusp of a $20 
million rehab.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bronxmall.com/norwoodnews/news/N70419page4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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