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...
Wetlands at Risk: Environmental Injustice and Community Resistance in Graniteville, Staten Island, 2000s–Present
Devalued Land, Devalued People: The Fight to Protect the Graniteville Wetlands on Staten Island, 2000s-Present by Jonathan MetrySite Description:Graniteville, a neighborhood on Staten Island's North Shore, became the focus of an environmental justice movement during...
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...
Cycling Infrastructure Inequality in NYC vs Newark, NJ
"Take the Lane vs. Thanks for the Lane", the Economics, Politics and Health Inequalities of Bicycle Infrastructure in Newark and New York, 1980-2015 by C.W. SleasmanSite Description:Prior to the ubiquity of the automobile in Newark and Manhattan, the bicycle was seen...
A Split City: The Cross Bronx Expressway
A Split City: The Destruction of the South Bronx by Qudsiya SyeddaSite Description:Popular drill rapper Ice Spice once said "We both from the Bronx, so I know that you dirty(dirty)" in her song No Clarity. The Bronx borough has longtime had the repuation of being an...
Drowning in the Raritan
Drowning in the Raritan:Working-Class Central New Jersey Towns Left Flooded and Looking for Help (1990-2021) by Hunter TagliaboschiSite Description: The Raritan River causing flooding has been an ongoing issue in the central part of NJ for decades and notably...
Grime and Filth, Followed by a Train
Parrish, Alabama:The Poor Facing Grime and Filth, Followed by a Train (2017-2021) by Philip PoretskySite Description: In 2017, cargo from a New York train, carrying waste, made its home in the small town of Parrish Alabama. The stench – atrocious, disrupting daily...
RPM Act
The RPM Act: How will the act affect us all in Englishtown, NJ (1972-2021) by Jason JimenezSite Description: Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act) is an act that allows those who modify their vehicles for the purpose of racing. Currently our street...
American Dream Mall
American Dream Mall: Bergen County’s Future Environmental Injustice Nightmare by Alexandra VidalSite Description: After almost 20 years after its inception, in October 2020 the American Dream Mall, the second-largest shopping center in the United States, finally...
Homes and Highways
Homes and Highways: Rupture and Resistance in Los Angeles’s West Adams Neighborhood by Jordan BaldridgeSite Description: The West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles was first populated by turn-of-the-century moguls: white men who had built fortunes in the city’s...