The city plans to relocate a 16-ton pile of snow-removal salt from the banks of the Harlem River to an enclosed spot closer to housing. That’s rankled some East Harlem residents, who cite health concerns and are upset trees will be uprooted to accommodate the pile, Angela M. Hill reports.

A bleak strip of land in upper Manhattan along the Harlem River, just across from Fordham Road in the Bronx, could soon undergo major rezoning to make way for high-rise apartment buildings. Read more