[CPEO-BIF] Empowering communities in the Seaport district of Manhattan, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Empowering Communities to Investigate Potentially Toxic Development

Opinion by Grace Lee
Gotham Gazette (NY)
February 10, 2020

Without the network of parents that I have met at my daughter’s school in the historic South Street Seaport, I might never have heard about a real estate developer’s purchase of a parking lot directly across the street that was once the site of the largest thermometer factory complex in the country.

This parking lot is located at 250 Water Street and sits adjacent to the entrances of PS 343 Peck Slip and the Blue School, which is another school that serves pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade children.

I wouldn’t have given the lot a second thought, until a parent told me that the developer – the Howard Hughes Corporation – applied the site to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

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For the entire column, see
https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/9123-empowering-communities-to-investigate-potentially-toxic-development

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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