1 in 3 New Yorkers live near mega-warehouses. Here are the health risks.

Plus: It'll soon be legal to grow weed at home [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [1 in 3 New Yorkers live near mega-warehouses. That can cause serious health issues.]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: 🌧️ Cloudy, with rain likely this afternoon and highs in the mid 40s. It's Wednesday in New York City, where about 3 million of us live within a half-mile of a large warehouse — and the dangerous pollution created by their delivery trucks. Since the start of the pandemic, when online shopping exploded, distribution facilities for companies like Amazon, FedEx and UPS have sprouted up across the five boroughs to meet demand. [Here's a map]( of where most of the warehouses are concentrated. And here's what else is happening: - Rover, a bald eagle who became famous for his hunting prowess around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in 2022, has [returned to Central Park](. - Police said a subway train fatally struck a man at the Prospect Park station in Brooklyn yesterday. He was the [second person to die this week]( from a subway strike. - When the MTA shuts down G train service for signal upgrades this summer, local politicians are demanding that the agency also [adds full-size train cars to the line]( and restores service to Forest Hills. - For more of Gothamist's transportation coverage, exclusive analysis and answers to your burning commuter questions, [subscribe to our free On The Way newsletter]( delivered every Thursday. - The city's annual street homeless count [got underway]( last night. - Mayor Eric Adams’ public campaign against a pair of City Council bills he vetoed last week took a bizarre turn yesterday when [a squabble erupted]( over the Council’s use of City Hall's rotunda and chairs for a press conference. - The sheriff of Passaic County in New Jersey [fatally shot himself]( inside a restaurant in Clifton yesterday, according to multiple reports. - An NYPD sergeant pleaded not guilty yesterday to second-degree manslaughter charges for allegedly [throwing a picnic cooler at a man on a motor scooter]( causing him to fatally crash. - The city Parks Department yesterday named 20 parks that are slated to receive [more than $100 million in funding]( over the next two years. - Mayor Adams delivers his annual State of the City address [today at 12:30 p.m.]( at Hostos College in the Bronx. - New Jersey Sen. Bob Mendendez's lawyers are trying to [get a bunch of evidence tossed from his corruption case]( arguing that gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz and envelopes of cash with Mendendez and a co-defendant's fingerprints on them were all obtained through unfair "exploratory rummaging" by the FBI. - Manhattan Democratic boss Keith Wright says a viral audio clip of himself disparaging Harlem Assemblymember Inez Dickens was [an AI-generated fake](. - Connecticut officials said a woman in her 20s has died after eating a Stew Leonard's cookie out of a mislabeled package that [failed to note the cookie contained peanuts](. - If you enter Jonathan the Doorman's building you better be prepared to ["walk that s**t."]( - New Hampshire GOP primary winner Donald Trump has been playing The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" as [a warm-up song at his rallies]( and Johnny Marr is not happy about it. - Florida officials are warning people not to bring "frozen" iguanas that have fallen from trees indoors because [once they thaw, they can get defensive and violent](. - Keep your gut health [to yourself](. - Have some time for a game? 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[‘Most of us have gone through this’: Yonkers workers show new migrants the ropes as day laborers]( Although officials have boosted efforts to help migrants obtain work permits, many say they face monthslong backlogs, leaving them with little choice but to take "under the table" jobs like many others who arrived before them. [We Rely On Your Support]( [A serial litterer once again casts porn, Bible pages and mail onto a Greenpoint street]( Someone is routinely discarding pages of vintage porn, Bibles and erotic novels on the sidewalks of Huron Street, a year after another culprit was caught dumping porn and old Reader’s Digests on nearby Noble Street. [NYC license plate cheats skirted $108M in speed camera tickets last year, audit finds]( According to Comptroller Brad Lander, 22% of cars caught speeding by the city’s automated cameras were rejected as unbillable in the first half of 2023 because their plates were unreadable. 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