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January 10, 2007
Earplugs, Anyone? Selling In Atlantic Yards’ Shadow
The New York Observer
Losing the sunsets and a decade-plus of construction was reason enough for Jacob Septimus and Jan Lattey to sell their homes and leave Prospect Heights. Here are some others:
Then, as the arena, the train yard and five other commercial and residential buildings get underway late next year, as many as 470 trucks will make deliveries each day during the peak period, in winter 2009, according to the final environmental-impact statement issued in November. An average of once or twice a week, workers would be on the job until 11 p.m. For 10 months, one of the lanes of Atlantic Avenue would shut down. Side streets would close for longer periods, some of them forever. The levels of fine particulate matter—soot and dust—would exceed the threshold level that the Environmental Protection Agency considers dangerous to human health along two different stretches around the construction site (including down the street from Newswalk) for year-long periods.
Observer reporter Matthew Schuerman takes a look at how Atlantic Yards is affecting residential sales in the neighborhood.
Posted by lumi at January 10, 2007 9:22 AM