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Creek
industrial waterfront of
CB6, but to open the rehabilitate
the toxic waterway
for activities like boating
and kayaking, too.
“A lot of the work we
do is meeting with different
landowners and
helping them go through
questions they have about
how to make their sites
more sustainable. They
went through Sandy or
they still go through
Sandy, and they understand
that flood risk is a
big problem and they want
to try to address that,”
Dougherty said.
“We did a rendering
of different options they
can do to make their site
more sustainable by increasing
wetlands, taking
out some of that concrete
bulkhead to make a more
resilient shoreline,” she
added. “Also putting in
public access to allow
people to not just get to
the water but to get on
the water.”
Waterfront Alliance
has worked with the EDC
on the $100 million redesigns
to Hunters Point
South which transformed
the industrial corner of
Long Island City into a
model for storm resilience
through man-made wetlands
rather than a seawall
and also advocated
for the launch of what is
now NYC Ferry.
Working industrial
waterfronts can also offer
this level of protection
from storm surge and recreation,
Dougherty said,
using an example from
Hunts Point in the Bronx
where a former cement
plant was turned into a
recreational waterfront.
Much of the industry
along the waterfront of
CB6, however, is still working
with its own cement
plant south of the Grand
Street Bridge which may
finally get a rebuild after
16 years of advocacy from
CB6 and stakeholders.
The rebuild of the
bridge will suit the
needs of these business
which use barges and
moveable bridges to
transport commodities.
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• 215th Street between
38th and 39th avenues;
• 219th Street and 38th
Avenue;
• 219th Street between
36th and 38th avenues; and
• 219th Street and 43rd
Avenue.
At the March 4 Community
Board 11 meeting,
Crime Prevention Officer
Stine reminded residents
to lock their car doors, even
if they were leaving for a
short amount of time.
“A lot of our issues still
is people leaving their cars
opened. We have plenty of
cameras out there where
kids are really just walking
up and down the block
just pulling on your car
handles. Make sure your
car is locked,” Stine said.
“A lot of the kids, they
just want some quick cash
and they’re gonna keep
trying to find the one
that’s opened.”
He also said that thieves
were stealing tires and
rims off of Hondas and
Nissans and shared pre-
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ventative measures for car
owners, including turning
the wheels toward the curb
to make them harder
to remove.
“If you have wheel locks,
do not keep the lock inside
the car — keep the lock inside
the home or on you,”
Stine said. “If you can, park
in your driveway or inside
a garage.”
According to 111th Precinct
crime stats, grand
larcenies as a whole have
gone up since last year.
CompStat data showed that
from March 4 to 10, the precinct
recorded 68 grand larcenies
in 2019 compared to
53 in 2018.