NYC Lawmakers Pressure State to Pick Green Business for Harlem River Yards Site
NY Daily News
By: Tim Balk
An industrial lot in the South Bronx that long housed the New York Post’s printing presses should be devoted to environmentally friendly uses, more than a dozen lawmakers including Rep. Ritchie Torres urged in a letter to the state.
The plea to the state Transportation Department came in response to worries that the unused 16-acre space at Harlem River Yards, a sprawling state-owned mixed-use property, will be snatched by a company that would use it for delivery warehousing.
Harlem River Yards sits on a former freight rail yard and is also home to a FedEx shipping center. The complex is part of a waterfront factory corridor that’s criticized for polluting the working-class neighborhoods of Port Morris and Mott Haven…
