Locals livid over ‘rigged’ development in Flushing Creek, Queens
A $2 billion development along toxic Flushing Creek will pollute the neighborhood with gentrification, critics say. Affordable housing activists, unions and mom-and-pop shops have packed public hearings on the waterfront proposal, pushing back against more luxury apartments and designer stores. And as livid as they are about the revitalization, they are just as angry about...