Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened last week to ban new glass skyscrapers if they don’t reduce carbon emissions. But many of the properties likely to face fines under the city’s recently adopted Green New Deal are older brick-walled apartment buildings across the city, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. The prospect has residents fretting about possible costs and consequences of the new legislation. Anthony Gigantiello Jr., board president of the Queens cooperative known as North Queensview, fears his buildings...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2019 12:22 UTC