After a lawsuit in California toppled the city of Berkeley's efforts to replace gas stoves with clean electric energy, fossil fuel industry groups are testing the same legal strategy in New York.
In mid-October, when City Limits visited the Randall's Island facility, a number of vendors were operating around the shelter tents, selling their wares.
Polluted from both its industrial past and the city's present-day sewer system, community leaders have pushed for years to get Coney Island Creek included on either New York State or the federal government's Superfund lists. But it hasn't been easy.
The team, which will have two attorneys and three paralegals, plans to provide legal support for public housing matters, including for tenants who have already converted or are in the process of converting to new funding models.
"For many nonprofit building owners like us, it is not a question of if we will be able to keep these buildings as supportive housing; rather, it is a question of how long we can afford to."