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Testimony by Gloria Boyce Charles from Brookville Springfield Gardens community in Queens
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Gloria Boyce Charles from the Brookville Springfield Gardens community in Queens testifies in support of Intro 99-A, addressing illegal overnight truck parking. She emphasizes the safety hazards posed by illegal truck parking and highlights the air quality concerns in Southeast Queens due to proximity to JFK Airport.
- Discusses the intersectionality of parking issues with air quality, particularly high levels of black carbon emissions from diesel trucks
- Mentions the impact of ultra-fine particulate matter from jet fuel on the community
- Suggests considering on-airport parking facilities for trucks as part of the JFK Airport redevelopment plan
Gloria Boyce Charles
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Thank you and good morning.
1:58:44
My name is Gloria Boyce Charles and I'm from the Brookville Springfield Gardens community in Queens.
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I'm here this morning to talk a little bit about the intro 99.
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I want to thank the council for introducing this important and innovative piece of legislation for considering ways that we can address some of the hard problems in our New York City communities, specifically around overnight legal overnight truck parking.
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There's no question, but that the illegal parking of trucks poses a safety hazard for our children, our families, our pedestrians, and even other drivers.
1:59:26
I recognize that this hearing focuses in on parking which is largely a land use real estate kind of an issue, but I do want us to acknowledge the intersectionality of another issue here and that's air quality.
1:59:40
And, when you talk about Southeast Queens, the Brookville community, the Springfield community, we're at ground zero for JFK Airport Runways and also for the air cargo activity.
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So, we experience a tremendous amount of trucked activity through our communities And, impacts not only our safety, but our air quality.
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In particular, there are very high levels of black carbon emissions that are coming out of these diesel trucks.
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And also, something that's And, let me just say that some of that has been measured at least the sixty first percentile.
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So, we're really exposed to high levels of some of these particulate matters.
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And, not only is it that we're exposed to those kinds of things that we are measuring, but there are some things in the air that we're not measuring and it's ultra fine particulate matter that's coming from the jet fuel, from the airplanes that fly over our heads.
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We're right at the runway.
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So, please consider that when you're looking at, you know, how these trucks are getting to the IBZ, there are people living in the IBZ.
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There are businesses in the IBZ.
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How are the trucks getting there and where are they parking?
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They're impacting those people.
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Also, and the surrounding communities.
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So, I'd like for, in your design of this legislation, please consider those things and consider that there is a lot of space on the JFK Airport which is undergoing a huge redevelopment.
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And, the Air Cargo facility recently has expanded to include over 1,000,000 square feet of real estate across eight facilities.
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For our Southeast Queens community we, I personally would like to suggest that you consider finding on airport parking facilities for the trucks.
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Thank you for your time.