Ballyhoo: Black Realtors, the NAACP, and Environmental Inequality in New Jersey’s Capitol City, 1950-1960 By Samuel JohnSite Description:Coalport was a small neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey. By the 1950s the neighborhood found itself home to a number of...
Explosion on the Elizabeth River: How the Chemical Control Corporation Fire Chased the Mob Out of Elizabeth New Jersey(1970-1980)
Fire On The Arthur Kill: The Chemical Control Corporation a Time Bomb in Elizabeth, NJ 1980. by Vincent BinettiSite Description:The Chemical Control Corporation plant in Elizabeth, NJ, was a functioning storage facility used for chemical waste in the surrounding areas...
From Brewing Jobs to Luxury Lofts: The Ballantine Redevelopment and the Future of the Ironbound
From Brewing Jobs to Luxury Lofts: The Ballantine Redevelopment and the Future of the Ironbound by Justin RibeiroSite Description:The Ballantine brewery is located in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. There is a lot of history behind this brewery; it was...
EEBS-Gateway Project
Living Next to the Gateway: Infrastructure Construction and Environmental Inequality in Secaucus and North Bergen, New Jersey, 2010–Present EEBS JSite Description: The Gateway Project is a big transportation plan meant to fix and expand the train connection between...
Beneath the Grass: Toxic Site or Ecological Haven? Environmental Injustice at Liberty State Park from 1976 to the Present
Beneath the Grass; An investigation on Whether Liberty State Park's 19th-Century Industrial Past led to Environmental Injustice in Jersey City, New Jersey by Nataly Mendez Site Description: With a stunning view of the Statue of Liberty, the peaceful Liberty State...
Living in fear in Camden and Pennsauken (N.J.) over proposed waste to energy Incinerators, (1970’s- early 1990’s)
Living in fear in Camden and Pennsauken (N.J.) over proposed waste to energy Incinerators, (1970’s- early 1990’s) by Luis RamirezSite Description:My research topic will be based on the Landfill Crisis of the 1970's, and how the State of New Jersey decided to build...
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest “Garbage City”, 1940-1970s
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest “Garbage City”, 1940-1970s by Arthanious ShafikSite Description:Mansheyet Nasser is a district of Cairo, Egypt. Cairo is one of the largest metropolises in the middle east. Known as the...
Is it Still a Wonderful Life? An analysis of Seneca Meadows Landfill Effect on Seneca County following the closure of Fresh Kills Landfill in 2001
Is It Still a Wonderful Life?: The Impacts of Seneca Meadows Landfill on the Communities of Waterloo and Seneca Falls After Fresh Kills Closure in 2001 by Michael SchoberSite Description: Project Description: Fresh Kills Landfill was opened in 1948 with the purpose of...
You didn’t have to fight in Vietnam to be exposed to Agent Orange you could have lived or worked in Newark
South Jersey Clothing Company Water Pollution in Minotola, N.J.
Water Pollution in Minotola, NJ that effected the residential citizens and businesses nearby in the 1980s by Iona SmithSite Description:Minotola, NJ is a small city located in Atlantic County. The racial population consists of 82% White, 10.3% African American,...