[CPEO-BIF] "NYC considers building new elementary school across from toxic Superfund site in trendy Greenpoint nabe"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NYC considers building new elementary school across from toxic Superfund site in trendy Greenpoint nabe

By Nicole Rosenthal
New York Post
January 14, 2025

Well this stinks.

The New York City School Construction Authority is considering breaking ground on a new elementary school in Brooklyn – across the street from a state Superfund site with a history of carcinogens.

The site on Dupont Street in Greenpoint, the former location of vinyl and plastic facility NuHart Plastics, was designated in 2010 due to its dual underground plumes with toxic phthalates and trichloroethylene, or TCE – the same carcinogen found around the notoriously-toxic Gowanus Canal.

“Being across the street [from a Superfund site] looks bad from a perception standpoint, but from an environmental standpoint, this is the cleanest site we found in Greenpoint,” a rep from the SCA told The Post.

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For the entire article, see
https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/nyc-considers-building-new-elementary-school-across-from-toxic-superfund-site/

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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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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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