[CPEO-BIF] "Environmental cleanup halts at Gowanus Green, threatens to delay 950 units of affordable housing , " Brooklyn, NY

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental cleanup halts at Gowanus Green, threatens to delay 950 units of affordable housing


By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklyn Paper (NY)
April 22, 2024

The environmental clean-up at Public Place — one of the most contaminated sites in Gowanus and the future home of the massive Gowanus Green development — has ground to a halt, threatening to delay construction of hundreds of affordable apartments. 

As per the 2021 Gowanus Rezoning agreement, Public Place is the future home of 950 affordable apartments, a new public school, and a waterfront park. But none of those projects can break ground until remediation is finished. 

The site is polluted with a century’s worth of carcinogenic coal tar, a byproduct of gas production, from the Citizen’s Manufactured Gas Plant, which closed in the 1960s. Cleanup started in 2019 under the state’s Brownfield program.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brownfield-cleanup-gowanus-green-pauses/

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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
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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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