The North River Sewage Treatment Plant

"I think it's from the powerlessness of black community, they know people can't complain," he says. "They try to put it on the 79th Street boat basin but the people who were at the 79th St said we don't want it here and they were wealthy people." The plant finally landed in a quiet neighborhood where professionals live with their own apartments -- doctors, lawyers, you know, people of means. 'It doesn't come from direct racism; I see this environmental racism all the time'