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 »
Sighting: Saint Agnieska on the Northside
Posted in Politics, Religion, Sighting, tagged apparition, Brooklyn, Department of Sanitation, pier, reports, sanitation, Sighting, waste, waterfront, Williamsburg on June 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There have been unconfirmed reports of Saint Agnieska wandering the waterfront (picking her way along the derelict piers) between North 7th and North 12th Streets adjacent to Kent Avenue in Williamsburg – behind the waste transfer station. These reports have come to us via word of mouth from Department of Sanitation drivers who frequent the Kent Ave. transfer [...]
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 [...]
Sighting: St. Agnieska Visiting the Oil Spill
Posted in Politics, Religion, Sighting, tagged apparition, Brooklyn, event, first hand account, Greenpoint, Newtown Creek, Oil Spill, Politics, Religion, sacred, saint, vision, witness, woman on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week “Saint Agnieska Watch” received some exciting news…witnesses, including a U.S. Coast Guard officer, reported seeing an “unspecified vision” of a woman hovering above Newtown Creek. At the particular spot where the apparition materialized, oil can actually be seen floating on top of the water between a man-made boom and the stone retaining wall at the [...]
Scope of Oil Spill
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Brooklyn, Ecology, Environment, Greenpoint, Health, Impact, New York State, Newtown Creek, Oil Spill, Politics, Pollution, Study on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the “Greenpoint Courier” newspaper, New York State will conduct a new study of the extent of the Greenpoint Oil Spill. The House of Representatives just passed an amendment, sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner, to a previous study of the spill done by the EPA. The original study was sponsored by Rep. Weiner and Rep. Nydia Velasquez. [...]
