[CPEO-BIF] "Greenpoint [Brooklyn, New York] brownfield site gets a cleanup - and a new apartment building"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rescue Me: Greenpoint brownfield site gets a cleanup - and a new  
apartment building


By Lore Croghan
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
April 17, 2014

Once upon a time, 1133 Manhattan Ave. was the Brooklyn Rapid Transit  
Rail Yard, one of Greenpoint's polluted properties.

Then it was deemed a brownfield site - and was included in a state  
Department of Environmental Conservation program that offers private  
developers tax credits for cleaning up places possibly contaminated  
by hazardous wastes or petroleum, or both.

A developer, the Domain Cos., got to work cleaning it up - a prelude  
to building a big apartment house.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/rescue-me-greenpoint-brownfield- 
site-gets-cleanup-%E2%80%93-and-new-apartment-building-2014-04-17

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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