Archive for November, 2009
City releases plans for Queens waterfront
The City released its plans for redeveloping the Long Island City waterfront, just north of Greenpoint in Queens, with an 11-acre park with water access and 3,000 units of affordable housing, The Queens Chronicle reported yesterday.
And now for something completely different
Happy Thanksgiving!
TransGas formally asks high court to hear appeal
Lawyers have formally asked the state’s highest court to review an earlier court decision that blocked TransGas Energy’s controversial plans to build a massive power plant along the East River. The motion asks the court to hear an appeal of a September ruling by a Brooklyn court that blocked the proposed plant.
The rise and fall of McCarren Pool
Remember the good old days of McCarren Park’s pool? The city shut it down in 1983, but enterprising residents revised. The Brooklyn Paper profiled the ups and downs in an article yesterday.
City, Navy named as Gowanus polluters
The city and the U.S. Navy may have to pay for polluting Gowanus Canal if it becomes a Superfund site. The EPA announced they, along with two others, are potentially responsible parties, the Daily News reported on Friday.
City may sell excess methane from Newtown Creek plant
The city may start selling off excess methane gas from the Newtown Creek Waste Water treatment plant to provide energy for nearby homes, the Daily News reported this morning.
The night the lights went out in New York
Forty-three years ago today, New York plunged in to an all-night blackout, leaving thousands stranded in subway tunnels and elevators said an article today in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
City wants promises from EPA before it tears down sludge tank on East River
The city wants to trade a sludge tank on the East River for green space and affordable housing, but before they do, they want the federal government to promise they will not get in the way of the project in a bureaucratic game of tug-of-war.
Slideshow: DEP’s East River Sludge Tank
Photos of and around the sludge tank the city will not tear down until it gets promises from the federal government that it will not get involved.
Kosciuszko Bridge to be replaced
Plans to replace Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Greenpoint and Queens via the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, will go forward despite budget cutbacks, The Daily News reported this morning.
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