Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.
A developer wanted to build housing, affordable units and public space, but was turned down by the local Council member, so now he's making housing ... for trucks. Is there a greater symbol of New York's dysfunction?