Kiera Feldman is a Brooklyn-based investigative reporter and radio producer. She has been a reporter for The Investigative Fund since 2010. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, n+1, nymag.com, VICE, This Land Press, PRI/BBC’s The World, Religion Dispatches, Waging Nonviolence, Killing the Buddha, City Limits, and elsewhere. In 2015, she won the Livingston Award for her story Sexual Assault at God's Harvard published in The New Republic. She also received the 2011 Jennifer L. Leonard fellowship from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She was a co-facilitator of the project Occupy Writers. Additionally, she has worked as a producer at WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show and WBAI's Beyond the Pale, a progressive culture and politics radio show. Her This Land Press piece "Grace in Broken Arrow" was a 2012 finalist for the Livingston Award and was also selected as the top story of 2012 by both Longreads.com and the Daily Beast. Last updated July 2017
A push against a zoning proposal involved a trade group helmed by a man convicted in a bid-rigging scheme; $500,000 to a lobbying firm that drafted legislation; and a lawmaker who was recently in business with one of the major haulers.
The mayor has touted pedestrian safety as a core aim of his mayoralty, and the crash comes as his administration is pushing a major reform that it says will improve the safety records of the army of private commercial garbage trucks that crisscross the city’s streets.
In a letter sent to New York City regulators, lawyers for the company said it would cease operations “forthwith.”
One of the biggest unions in New York’s private garbage industry is run by a man with a long record of run-ins with the authorities, and its vice president is a convicted felon. Many workers say it’s a union in name only.
As New York City’s oversight agency moves to have companies regularly report accidents, traffic violations and license suspensions involving their drivers, the haulers push back.
Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act.
A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage.
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions.
This time, an unlicensed employee was behind the wheel of a Sanitation Salvage truck when it smashed head-on into a sedan on a Bronx street.
A ProPublica inquiry sparked by the death of a motorist in Brooklyn shows the trash company involved is headquartered on land owned by someone banned from the industry years ago.
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