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August 24, 2007
We have issues
THE DIRT ON COMBINED SEWERS
The Gowanus Lounge, Gowanus Flooding Redux
The August 8th storm was a perfect illustration of why residents around the Gowanus Canal basin are pissed that the City and State are supporting Atlantic Yards and a massive population influx without first fixing (and we mean REALLY FIXING) our severely overburdened sewers.
DEMOLITION OVERSIGHT: IT TAKES A TRAGEDY
NY Daily News, Where have you gone, Scoppetta & Bloomy?
NoLandGrab: Atlantic Yards watchdogs already know what happens when the City and State take a hands-off approach to demolition. Serious demolition accidents are commonplace, especially in Brooklyn, where developers are in overdrive. All of the recent incidents, especially the parapet collapse at the Ward Bakery building in the footprint of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards plan, should have been the canary in the coal mine.
However, no one was listening, and Saturday's tragic deaths at the Deutsche Bank demolition site were compounded by yesterday's events, in which heavy equipment fell from the upper floors and crashed through the sidewalk safety shed, on to the heads of two firefighters working below.
And, as Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez points out, no one is talking, and even worse, Mayor Bloomberg is lobbying Governor Spitzer to veto State Assemblyman Jim Brennan's bill calling for increased oversight of construction sites at which safety violations have already been issued.
Posted by lumi at August 24, 2007 9:08 AM