Staten Island composting facility odor forces family from home

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are allegedly suffering physical symptoms from the pervading stench rattling their Travis neighborhood.

According to Janet Nigro, her 45-year-old daughter and her granddaughter live in an apartment in the area of a city Department of Sanitation composting facility.

Nigro told the Advance/SILive.com that her family “had to leave their home and live elsewhere because the smell has permeated into their second-floor apartment, and this is with all the windows closed.”…

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