Dozens picket concrete recycling plant that has been blanketing Cobble Hill in dust for a year: always getting sick

Dozens of Brooklynites raged Wednesday over a city-run concrete recycling facility that has been blanketing Cobble Hill in thick layers of dust for a year — spouting concerns that the fumes are making them sick.More than 50 people formed a human shield outside the SIM Municipal Recycling to block trucks from entering Wednesday — as they protested the rock-smashing operations that they say have been a blight on the neighborhood.“We’re really mad.We needed to do something drastic to get them to listen to us because they’ve told us countless lies.

We’ve tried to be nice,” Jana Weill, 42, told The Post.Weill, who has lived on Columbia Street for 21 years, was among the first to wedge herself between a city Department of Transportation truck and the entrance to the facility, a move she said she was forced to take after months of dealing with air noise pollution emitting from the recycling facility.More than a dozen outraged neighbors joined her, chanting “Shut it down!” and “We need a real solution, no more air pollution.”The driver sat idly until police swooped onto the scene just minutes later.The group quickly dispersed without further altercation or arrests, though they continued shouting at the stream of pick-up trucks that followed.“We can’t open the windows.

We have constantly there’s dust everywhere.Even when I’m walking, there’s dust in my mouth.

Our building shakes from the trucks, the whole building shakes.And it’s just created a really unsafe — it’s disrupted the peace in my neighborhood,” Weill seethed.Weill was one of several who told The Post they ditched work to air their grievances at the facility — which was supposed to be only a “temporary” operation at Kane and Columbia streets.But the angry residents said they have recently learned the plant would continue operating at the location for at least five years.The SIM facility was relocated from its Sunset Park location last February to make way for the co...

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