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'A real matter of life or death': How the pandemic has renewed focus on push to change S.I. car culture


‘A real matter of life or death’: How the pandemic has renewed focus on push to change S.I. car culture
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Jess Scicchigno, a New Dorp Beach resident with asthma and a condition called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), is one of the Island’s residents affected by high pollution levels. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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[This is part two of a two-part series analyzing Staten Island’s air pollution and the coronavirus outbreak.]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A noxious concoction of harmful pollutants lines Staten Island’s main highway an artery of black carbon and nitric oxide that serves as a center point of dangerous pollutants that threaten borough residents’ lung health. ....

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