http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/environmental_justice+bus_depot PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16004 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16004 <p>April 15, 2007<br />Chinatown<br />Casino-Bound, Complaints in Their Wake<br />By CASSI FELDMAN</p><p>Around 8:30 p.m., a fat gray bus bound for Atlantic City pulls up on Division Street in Chinatown. Its doors wheeze open, and a line of riders shuffle into formation, clutching pink tickets and plastic shopping bags, and sucking a few final drags from their cigarettes before flicking them away.</p><p>The ritual takes no more than 15 minutes, but it happens dozens of times a day as buses headed to Trump Plaza, Foxwoods or other casinos load and unload passengers in the V formed by the Bowery and Division Street.</p><p>Now, citing pollution and noise, neighbors say they want the buses to find a new home.</p><p>&quot;You can feel a toxic film in our yard,&quot; said Justin Yu, vice president of the co-op board at Confucius Plaza, a 44-story complex that overlooks the site. &quot;It's very unhealthy.&quot;</p><p>While numerous bus companies operate out of Chinatown, Mr. Yu and his neighbors are particularly concerned about casino buses because their informal hub is a block shared by hundreds of senior citizens, an elementary school, a kindergarten and a day care center.</p><br />