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Major NYC compost operation, reeling from budget cuts, to be booted from Queens site

Posted on AllSides April 1st, 2024
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Organizers of one of the city’s largest composting sites, which is already reeling from Mayor Eric Adams' budget cuts, said the city is kicking them out of a space beneath the Queensboro Bridge to make way for a new park. Big Reuse's organizers said they’ve processed millions of pounds of organic waste at the facility only blocks from the waterfront. Their lease expires in June. The parks department said it needs the space to build a new, small park dubbed the Queensbridge Baby Park. “They’re sort of evicting us to...

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