From DNA Info:This green grocer has some Corona residents seeing red.
A produce wholesaler in the neighborhood is making life a nightmare for some — from refrigerated trucks spewing toxic exhaust, to workers making sexual comments and even threatening residents with "connections with Mexican gangs," a $10 million lawsuit claims.
The papers, filed in Queens Supreme Court earlier this month, also accuses the city and the NYPD of failing to respond to a "tidal wave of complaints" from residents about Moreno Produce, at 97-03 43rd Ave., in recent years.
Chief among the allegations is that trucks from the company, also known as Nuevo Mexico Lindo Su Abarrotera Central Corp., are being allowed to idle for "hours at a time...sending toxic pollutants into neighboring residential homes."
He said the trucks are also causing sleepless nights for residents, a problem that has been getting worse over the past two years.
According to the suit, which also names the city and the NYPD as defendants, trucks from the company block traffic, "forcing school buses and emergency vehicles to change their routes," and occasionally damage their vehicles.
Aside from the trucks, residents also have to contend with forklifts, which are used on the sidewalks and streets "in a recklessly dangerous manner," the suit says.
Moreno is also "allowing its employees to make rude, abusive and sexually suggestive comments and even...indicating that they have connections with Mexican gangs, when faced with complaints from the neighborhood," the complaint says.
4 comments:
Honestly, given the third world state that Corona has degenerated into over the last four decades, and its status as an illegal alien haven, I am shcked, utterly SHOCKED that anyone even gives a shit about this.
Poster #1: Noise complaints from communities like that are actually LESS than surrounding areas for that reason.
This will be a very interesting lawsuit to follow. . . I think of the turn-of-the-century Supreme Court ruling in re. Ho: unequal application of regulations based on (in this case,) race - which could, arguably, be expanded to include the distressed socio-economic status of neighborhoods (dense minority populations are a key component).
This should have legs: consider the enforcement in Billy-burg, or Manhattan, or Park Slope, compared to non-enforcement in areas like Corona.
This will be a very interesting lawsuit to follow. . . I think of the turn-of-the-century Supreme Court ruling in re. Ho: unequal application of regulations based on (in this case,) race - which could, arguably, be expanded to include the distressed socio-economic status of neighborhoods (dense minority populations are a key component).
PERFECT EXCUSE TO OVERTURN THE LANDMARKS LAW!
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