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RSSMad Men star John Slattery is fighting plans to build a new sanitation building in his trendy New York neighbourhood.
The actor, who plays Roger Sterling in the hit TV drama, is angry at the $346m sanitation department plan.
It would see a garage complex built near the city’s West Side Highway to store the city’s garbage trucks.
But neighbours say that the SoHo depot will increase traffic and risk pedestrian safety.
“There are a lot of families in the neighbourhood, and they haven’t been taken into account in the designing of this facility,” said Slattery.
“The air quality, the traffic, the noise (are all) going to be affected.
“There are people who have been living here for years.
“It’s not a bunch of wealthy people who are just complaining that their views are going to be blocked.
“It’s the actual livability of the neighbourhood.”
Musicians Lou Reed and Michael Stipe and actors James Gandolfini, Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany and Casey Affleck already oppose the scheme.
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