[CPEO-BIF] "State Bars Construction on Williamsburg Brownfield Site While Tenants Remain in Residence , " Brooklyn, NY

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Bars Construction on Williamsburg Brownfield Site While Tenants Remain in Residence

By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklyn Paper (NY)
March 12, 2024


On a rainy March afternoon, the tenants of 135 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg set up a tarp and a table outside their small apartment building. With baked goods and fresh chai, they were thanking their neighbors for their support and celebrating a victory. 

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation had just barred their landlord from attempting to renovate and remediate the ground floor of their building — which sits on a contaminated brownfield site – while the tenants are still living there.

“That was a big relief for us, that the DEC is putting a block on this, and we feel protected by that,” said Christian Anwander, who has lived in the building with his wife, Mitra Farahmand, since 2012.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.brownstoner.com/real-estate-market/williamsburg-135-kent-avenue-brownfield-cleanup/

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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
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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