A Woman Has Never Run New York City. Can Kathryn Garcia Change That?
Kathryn Garcia knows her shit. On a blustery spring morning, she's standing at the waterfront in Long Island City and squinting at a boat on the East River, roughly a hundred yards away. "That's a sludge boat," she says. "Riding high." One of her volunteers muses aloud that the vessel must be carrying trash. "No," she says with a smirk, "it's transporting solids." Then she pauses for the tiniest moment before clarifying. "From the sewage system.
