Frelinghuysen

A counselor at a substance abuse center on Frelinghuysen, he said he didn’t know that he worked across the street from a toxic site.

The Frelinghuysen Avenue lot is one of more than 900 toxic waste sites facing ever-increasing risks from rising seas, fiercer wildfires and other disasters driven by climate change, according to a 2019 report by the Government Accountability Office.

Residents have become accustomed to seeing Frelinghuysen Avenue flood during heavy storms.

Children who play at the football field a few blocks from the Superfund site don’t have many shops along Frelinghuysen Avenue to go to after games, Freeman lamented.

“You’re making converts all over the place, Ms. Lee,” Rodney Frelinghuysen, Republican of New Jersey and then the chairman of the panel, said at the time.