{"id":999,"date":"2021-12-22T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.smesh.space\/?p=999"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:39:36","slug":"2021-12-22-amazon-fedex-and-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-bringing-a-package-of-environmental-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, FedEx and UPS Deliver New NYC Warehouses, Bringing a Package of Environmental Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:2820px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n              \n              class=\"image-block-wrapper\"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"\n                position: relative;\n                \n                  padding-bottom:56.24113845825195%;\n                \n                overflow: hidden;-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(white, black);\n              \"\n              ><\/p>\n<p>                  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/577688426b8f5b89f05b23f0\/64881a14-0e67-4b53-acc2-37f25ca309b4\/121321_amazon_red_hook_1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/577688426b8f5b89f05b23f0\/64881a14-0e67-4b53-acc2-37f25ca309b4\/121321_amazon_red_hook_1.0.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/577688426b8f5b89f05b23f0\/64881a14-0e67-4b53-acc2-37f25ca309b4\/121321_amazon_red_hook_1.0.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2820x1586\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"61c370592aae9111400c4398\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Warehouses and \u201clast-mile\u201d facilities are popping up with little regulation. A new city plan calls for more use of waterways, bike deliveries and other measures to cut truck traffic. But increased pollution concerns are fueling criticism against a new wave of \u201cenvironmental racism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">BY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/authors\/samantha-maldonado\"><strong>SAMANTHA MALDONADO<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:smaldonado@thecity.nyc\" title=\"\"><strong>SMALDONADO@THECITY.NYC<\/strong><\/a> | DEC 15, 2021, 9:47AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Online retail may make holiday shopping easy, but the local impact is anything but virtual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">To meet a growing demand for speedy shipping, companies are increasingly putting warehouses and so-called last-mile facilities throughout the city \u2014 largely unregulated and without the public\u2019s ability to weigh in on threats to health, safety and the climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThis is straight-up environmental racism,\u201d said Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, a Sunset Park-based environmental justice group. \u201cWhen everyone is talking about racial justice and equity and green jobs, this is contrary to how everyone is thinking about how we move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n  class=\"sqs-block-button-container sqs-block-button-container--center\"\n  data-animation-role=\"button\"\n  data-alignment=\"center\"\n  data-button-size=\"medium\"\n  data-button-type=\"primary\"\n><br \/>\n  <a\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/environment\/2021\/12\/15\/22837496\/amazon-fedex-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-traffic\"\n    class=\"sqs-block-button-element--medium sqs-button-element--primary sqs-block-button-element\"\n    \n  ><br \/>\n    Read more<br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warehouses and \u201clast-mile\u201d facilities are popping up with little regulation. A new city plan calls for more use of waterways, bike deliveries and other measures to cut truck traffic. But increased pollution concerns are fueling criticism against a new wave of \u201cenvironmental racism.\u201d BY SAMANTHA MALDONADO | SMALDONADO@THECITY.NYC | DEC 15, 2021, 9:47AM EST Online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,17,22,15],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronx","category-environment","category-health","category-housing","category-news","tag-business-integrity-commission","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"hpcndev","author_link":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntspoint.nyc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}