Environment

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (305+ words) A city literally too flat to survive its own waste had to be raised, block by block, with thousands of jackscrews turning beneath occupied buildings....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (905+ words) BRIDGEPORT — Maria LaGiglio says she will sell her house and move if Amtrak’s proposed 24/7 maintenance facility is built about 100 feet from her home. “I have a 9-year-old daughter. I will not raise her like 100 feet away from that maintenance facility,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (360+ words) A city usually treats a building as complete the day it receives permission to be occupied. From then on, attention shifts elsewhere. Rooms are divided, terraces are loaded, services are inserted, basements are deepened, and homes acquire uses for which…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (127+ words) CoStar This partnership plans energy makeovers of New York office towers - Fitted offices in demand as tenants look to cut costs, SHW analysis shows --------------------------------------------------------------- - Royal College of General Practitioners prescribes sale of London HQ --------------------------------------------------------------- - Boston-area AI startup doubles its San…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (164+ words) Early on, Clarke distributed bilingual brochures in English and Spanish to storefront owners along 171st Street, explaining his initiative and asking merchants to recommend other neglected blocks worth cleaning, per The Mary Sue. That direct outreach built early trust, and local…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (580+ words) New York is exploring an inventive way to make its notoriously hot subway platforms more tolerable: capturing the heat underground and putting it to use aboveground. Success would make it the first thermal energy network tied to a U.S. train system....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (884+ words) CHINATOWN — Residents are fighting against a proposed Amtrak maintenance facility they say could have significant environmental consequences for their communities. More than 100 neighbors packed into Pui Tak Center, 2216 S. Wentworth Ave., for a meeting hosted by the Coalition for a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (264+ words) WTAQ Hazards of corn box-play to be featured in free webinar, Sept. 14 Safety campaigns urge farmers not to enter grain-filled bins. So are we sending the wrong message to children if we allow them to play in a sandbox full…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (773+ words) Contaminated soil, underground tank buried under former Walmart parking lot. Midtown Commons. Rendering by Gorman & Co. An environmental cleanup loan fund controlled by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee will be used to help close a financial hole…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (535+ words) Deferrimg maintenance on facades is just one of many costly mistakes co-op and condo boards make. Aug. 25, 2026 — Boards learn the hard way that being cheap can get very expensive. Many cash-strapped co-op and condo boards are reluctant to spend money,…...