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News Articles by Amy Eddings

Netting the Nets Would Re-Make Brooklyn’s Downtown

December 11, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Developer Bruce Ratner unveiled designs yesterday for a possible new home for the New Jersey Nets in Brooklyn. Ratner is bidding for the basketball team, and the ambitious development project he's pro....

Bloomberg's Garbage Export Plan

December 03, 2003

by Amy Eddings

The city's sanitation commissioner, John Doherty, is defending the extended timeline and costs of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's long-term garbage export plan. But he faced a panel of skeptics at a city co....

City Gets Serious On Recycling

November 26, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Stability is not a word anyone would use to describe the city's current recycling program, battered by cuts and pickup changes in the last year and a half. But behind the scenes, the city's been seek....

Monitoring Long Term Health Effects around Ground Zero

October 29, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Health care officials say they need at least 256 million dollars in federal funds to help them adequately monitor the health of those who worked and volunteered at Ground Zero. Their request was part....

Brooklyn’s New Bishop

October 02, 2003

by Amy Eddings

On Friday, Roman Catholics in Brooklyn and Queens will have a new leader. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will replace retiring bishop Thomas Daily, in a solemn ceremony in Bay Ridge. WNYC's Amy Eddings h....

9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Gaining Allies

September 24, 2003

by Amy Eddings

The deadline to apply to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is three months away. The fund has been slow to catch on. Many families, and their lawyers, have criticized the fund, and its adm....

An Ikea in Red Hook?

September 03, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Click here to view a slideshow of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood. IKEA, the Swedish furniture store, is known as much for its huge stores as its inexpensive, stylish, ready-to-assemble product....

Local Officials Demand Full Post-9/11 Cleanup

August 27, 2003

by Amy Eddings

A recent report by the Inspector General of the federal Environmental Protection Agency has local officials feeling vindicated. That report said the EPA, under pressure from the White House, downplay....

Recycling Plastic Comes Back – But At What Cost?

July 08, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Plastic recycling is back, and glass recycling will resume in nine months. City councilmembers, who had been pushing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to bring back the full recycling program, were pleased wit....

Food Disposals Reconsidered

May 28, 2003

by Amy Eddings

It's a persistant belief among many New Yorkers that food disposers, that staple of suburban kitchens, are banned in the city. They're not. In fact, the right to grind eggshells and pizza crusts, an....

Inmates Would Rather Fight Than Quit

March 31, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Bar and restaurant patrons have the option of stepping outside for a smoke, once the city's tough new smoking ban goes into effect Sunday. But inmates in the city's jails won't have this kind of outl....

Recyclers Ask, What About Glass?

March 10, 2003

by Amy Eddings

A joint mayoral and council task force is expected to issue a report today on how the city can improve recycling. The task force was formed last year, when the city suspended glass and plastic recycl....

Tenants: Landlord Replacing Them With Homeless Families

January 08, 2003

by Amy Eddings

A state supreme court justice has temporarily ordered a Brooklyn landlord to stop eviction proceedings against his tenants. The residents of the low-income housing complex say their landlord was unfa....

Tenants: Landlord Replacing Them With Homeless Families

January 08, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Tenants: Landlord Replacing Them With Homeless Families

January 08, 2003

by Amy Eddings

Local Catholics Look Back on a Year of Scandal

December 26, 2002

by Amy Eddings

The past year has been a stormy and scandalous one for Roman Catholics. It began with a story in the Boston Globe last January about former priest John Geoghan, accused of molesting 130 boys in six d....

Mayor Announces Major Housing Initiative

December 11, 2002

by Amy Eddings

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's three billion dollar plan to create and preserve 65-thousand units of affordable housing in the next five years is being hailed as the city's biggest housing initiative since....

Mayor Announces Major Housing Initiative

December 11, 2002

by Amy Eddings

Can NYC Learn Recycling Lessons from San Francisco?

November 25, 2002

by Amy Eddings

When the city suspended plastic and metal recycling last summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg argued the programs were an expensive failure. But recycling advocates wonder why New York City has failed wher....

Jehovah's Witnesses: Church Policy HIdes Abuse?

September 30, 2002

by Amy Eddings

About 50 people protested in front of the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses, in Brooklyn Heights, calling for a change in the way the church handles allegations of child sexual abuse. WNY....