‘It does not end here:’ Hundreds march to protest BJs development on Graniteville Wetlands
Updated 5:45 PM;
Today 5:44 PM
Hundreds of people marched down Forest Avenue Saturday to protest a BJ s Wholesale development slated to be built on part of the Graniteville Wetlands. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A crowd of several hundred people marched down Forest Avenue Saturday afternoon to protest a BJ’s Wholesale development slated to be built on the Graniteville Wetlands.
Marchers began to gather at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Richmond Avenue in Graniteville just before noon and only days before work could potentially begin at the site. Some who attended held signs that read, “Save Our Wetlands” and “Wetlands Not Warehouses.”
Scientist: Another Sandy ‘would be devastating’ after BJ’s development destroys Graniteville wetlands
Updated 10:19 AM;
Today 10:00 AM
Staten Island environmental activists are fighting against the Graniteville wetlands development. Sept. 25, 2017 (Staten Island Advance/Erik Bascome) EXT
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Carl Alderson remembers how Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, causing immense flooding and two dozen deaths. Two decades before, he witnessed how a 1992 nor’easter slammed the borough and brought with it ravaging inundation.
In both cases, one fact is “indisputable,” said Alderson, a former Staten Islander and the Mid-Atlantic restoration coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Associations’ Fisheries’ Habitat Restoration Center: The site of the former GATX oil storage terminal, which was a vacant low-lying basin of roughly 650 acres in the Old Place Creek corridor on the borough’s North Shore, helped absorb
#SISustainabilty: How art, environmental crises, social justice intersect on Staten Island
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
Posted Dec 12, 2020
Members of the Staten Island community joined together on Zoom for a conversation titled Embodying Shaolin: A Conversation on Resistance and Resilience.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Thirty Staten Islanders came together on Friday afternoon for a conversation on art, environmental crises and social injustice in the borough.
The webinar, titled ‘Embodying Shaolin: A Conversation on Resistance and Resilience,” was the fifth part of the Human Impacts Institute’s Art & Action Chats, which highlight the intersectionality of the climate crisis with issues such as racial justice and consumerism in New York City.