NEW YORK—Upper East Side residents living near East 91st Street are battling to stop the construction of a proposed marine transfer station, which they say will stink and harm their neighborhood.
The $500 million project would tear down the current trash transfer facility near East 91st Street and York Avenue, closed since 1999, and build a new 10-story facility for trucking trash across the river to New Jersey.
On Monday, State Assemblyman Micah Kellner joined fellow residents in filing the fourth lawsuit against the city over the facility. Kellner, who lives at 84th Street and York Avenue, said the city was required by law to perform another environmental review of the site, which it has not. He said factors have changed since the original proposal was approved in 2006, giving them grounds for their lawsuit.
The 2006 proposal had included two additional stations, one at West 59th Street, which has major uncertainty surrounding its construction, and another at West 135th Street, which was scrapped.
