Detoxing Superfund Creek; A Roving Queens Landmark; LIC gets iced

One little note about the Gazette article “Bike Lanes head agenda at CB2 meeting”… they weren’t even on the agenda. I know because I called the day of the meeting and was told it wouldn’t be on the agenda. Nonetheless cyclist and girl scout troop leader Emilia Crotty attended and spoke, as it says, and took some questions from the community board. After the public portion, after which Emilia and our other supporters left, Al Volpe brought up the anti-Skillman bike lane resolution and it was voted on, but it wasn’t on the agenda let alone on the top of it. Otherwise that’s pretty much how it went down.

There could be THREE TIMES more oil in Newtown Creek than the amount released by the Exxon Valdez. Yet, the latter is universally synonymous with environmental disaster, and not Newtown Creek. Here’s an issue Conley should focus on.

Newtown Creek is not his Joe’s immediate district. And besides Eric Gioa is the one working that for the Public Advocacy position. Well I can tell you Joe was down here when we called him about the oil smell coming from TCR at the Rockrose sight or the OCA sight. (not that I agree with Joe at all, but he was here.) It was coming through the sewer into my basement. It did when they remeidated East Coast 2. Cathy Nolan made them put a tent on it. Joe and the Queens West guy Paul what’s his name, spent the entire day trying to make heads or tails of the situation. I also had someone from citi light send him the water report that was taken when all the oil smells started up again. You can’t smell Benzine, but oil is what is carrying the benzine which is cancer causing. The land should be capped….not dug up. That is what is disturbing the ground and releasing this stuff. TCR says none of this is at any harmful level. It took Cathy many months to get them to put a tent on it last time and cover the soil carted out in the trucks. You could see soil dust rising 200 feet into the air from the 59th street bridge and flying high throughout the neighborhood. Again last time TRC said it wasn’t harmful levels……and still they were forced to cover and remeidiate properly. And the word properly is still subjective to some toxic expert. Any scientist’s want to step in here?

I like that lets drill for oil here! Then the developers will make a lot of money without having to build skyscrapers!

Somewhat unrelated – recently i’ve seen a lot of people on jetskis/wave runners and was curious if anyone knew if these were rentable or if people were bringing there own? Also, is this legal? I’m not sure it would be the safest of ideas, seeing as I’m sure you can contract some STD or previously undiscovered disease from being in the water, but it sure would provide a nice view with the skyline and all…