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N.Y. can’t squander this shot at environmental justice

08 Mar 2022 2:11 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

By Bill Wilkins, New York Daily News

Thirty-two years ago, my wife and I made the decision to buy a home and raise our family in East New York — a community where she grew up, at the time considered a low-income area with not much hope of economic revival or prosperity. Since then, we have raised three great kids, two of whom have earned graduate degrees from top universities. And as the director of economic development and housing for the local development corporation serving the area’s industrial base, I’ve seen how a thriving local economy can lift nearby families and move a community from poverty to prosperity — but only after the remnants of past pollution have been removed from the area.

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Posted March 5, 2022

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