Residents for Sane Trash Solutions, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

*575 OPINION & ORDER

PAUL A. CROTTY, District Judge.

Most New Yorkers are agnostic about where their garbage goes, or how it gets there, so long as it goes away. But garbage disposal is both messy and expensive. At present, New York City garbage must be collected, transported, consolidated, transshipped, and ultimately disposed of by means of landfill dumping, composting, energy conversion, or some other mechanism.

For six decades beginning in the 1930s, there was a marine transfer station — a garbage-shipping plant used to dispose of the City’s waste — at the intersection of 91st Street, the FDR…