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June 23, 2011
Drill spews dirt into Vanderbilt Avenue injuring two and damaging seven cars
Atlantic Yard Watch
Thomas Tracy reports today in the Brooklyn Paper that a drill driving piles immediately adjacent to Vanderbilt Avenue in block 1121 "sent egg-sized chunks of packed dirt and small stones raining down on unsuspecting pedestrians and commuters at the corner of Vanderbilt and Atlantic Avenues on June 21- leaving two injuries and more than seven damaged cars."
The drill in question is of the same type and doing the same type of work reported to be spewing dust several months ago on this website. These types of drills at the site have been the source of community complaints for some time, particularly for the dust and noise they cause. A video in our report from April 6th shows a malfunctioning Casagrande drill spewing dust one block west from the most recent incident.
Posted by eric at June 23, 2011 2:49 PM