> Those organizing efforts culminated in a February 2022 demand letter from 43 community members to local, state and federal officials about the conditions in the neighborhood. Chief among the demands were stormwater and wastewater sewer systems, green stormwater infrastructure and enforcement against illegal dumping and vehicle abandonment.<p>That sounds like a lot of expensive infrastructure to cater to 50 people (many of whom are squatters or homeless, it implies?). Maybe it would make more sense to condemn the area, and turn it into a large park intended for flooding. The NYC area as a whole is going to need much more flood capacity in the future, if projections are right, and this place has nothing of note and sounds like it's already 90% of the way there (to being both a park and a flood zone), whether you like it or not.