2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 10 Aug 2007 14:46:23 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Long Beach incinerator site, Nassau County, New York
 
Long Beach incinerator comes down

BY WILLIAM MURPHY
Long Island Newsday (NY)
August 7, 2007

In a bit of muted symbolism, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi personally guided a giant-toothed shovel into the side of the Long Beach incinerator Tuesday, sending bricks and debris crashing to the ground.

Sitting at the controls of a hydraulic excavator for about 15 minutes, Suozzi tore away about one-quarter of one wall of the main incinerator building, which is being demolished to make way for a development along Reynolds Channel.

...


Suozzi thanked the local residents -- many of them from the adjacent black, middle-class neighborhood of North Park -- for their efforts to close the incinerator and improve the area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lilong0808,0,6804066.story

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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