Noise, pollution, danger: how Amazon warehouses upended a sleepy New York neighborhood

A community farm next to an Amazon last-mile facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Photograph: Amir Hamja/The Guardian

On a drizzly Friday night, Rosana Zapata was mapping out a changing neighborhood.

Using Sharpie and pencil, the 18-year-old sketched her world on printer paper: a street intersection, a small parking lot, a lit-up sign for fried chicken. “I have a lot of memories there,” Zapata told a small group of young artists seated at school desks, who had each drawn their own favorite neighborhood spots.