Much like their waterfront neighbors to the North in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the residents of DUMBO and Vinegar Hill bear the burden of housing a power plant within the confines of their neighborhood. Con Edison, the City’s electrical utility provider, runs the Hudson Avenue Generating Station, which spans several blocks on Plymouth St. Clearly, electricity [...]
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Generating Power in DUMBO & Vinegar Hill
Posted in Background, News, Politics, tagged Brooklyn, chemicals, Con Edison, DUMBO, electricity, EPA, NYPIRG, particulates, Pollution, power, power plant, public interest, real estate, residential, safety, toxic, Vinegar Hill on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Waste Transfer Stations
Posted in Background, Politics, tagged Brooklyn, clustering, community, East Coast, Ecology, Environment, facility, garbage, government, Greenpoint, industrial, law, lawsuit, manufacturing, marine transfer station, neighborhood, New York City, Newtown Creek Water Treatment Facility, park, regulations, station, transfer, waste, Williamsburg on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The problem began in the early 1990s, when the city government started opening transfer stations in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint community. This neighborhood possessed what is a commodity in New York City – a large industrial park with a lot of empty space in it. The City gravitated to it. The Williamsburg/Greenpoint area, one of the [...]
Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant
Posted in Background, Politics, tagged Brooklyn, chemical, Greenpoint, harbor, Manhattan, New York City, Newtown Creek, odor, Politics, Queens, renovation, sewage, toxic, toxins, waste, water, water treatment on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Newtown Creek Water Treatment Facility (in Greenpoint Brooklyn), built in the late ’60s, is the largest sewage treatment plant in New York City, and purportedly the largest on the East Coast as well. There are a lot of people in New York City – they all expel waste on a daily basis – and [...]
