I’ll take my chances in LIC.

My only concerns right now are three-fold:

1. Blowing dust…although it appears that is being cleaned up. And I’ll try to avoid it.
2. My kid playing on the grass
3 Any potential impact on property values associated with environmental screw-ups

Seems like Rockrose has a pretty big financial incentive to either get it cleaned up right so the development will continue to grow in value over time. I supposed they could try to hide negative information, but it’s probably cheaper (in the long run) to take care of it now rather than risk having to deal with it later.

Asthma, cancer, and other stuff? I’d worry much more about the people working on the site and my own personal heart attack from eating all of this wonderful New York food. Oh yeah, and one of those helicopters crashing into my apartment building. ;)

70 and 67 : The sales office is in the corner of center blvd and 47th in the EC1 building…

69 : “the land there was treated years ago. brand spanking new clean land is there now” : this is not true… there is about 12-15 feet of brand spankin’ new land… under that is still polluted as hell… DEC knows about it but still signed off because Rockrose put in place the sub slab depressurization system… if you read the remediation action report in the offering plan, there are still areas of the parcel that have contaminents waaay above norms… thus why I gave them the O.P back and walked away the day before I was supposed to sign the contract…

http://curbed.com/archives/2008/06/20/more_black_gold_in_williamsburg_40_berry_street_oil_field.php

There certainly isn’t anything bubbling up to the surface in LIC.

and the land there was treated years ago. brand spanking new clean land is there now.

30 : I don’t bash on LIC… I love this place… I was trying to buy here… Just nothing worth the price except the view imho… but it sits on toxic land so I won’t buy in the view… and I AM leaving LIC… BTW, I really don’t appreciate you implying I’m dumb for leaving my spot for “thousands of intelligent people”… totally uncalled for… you don’t know me, my situation or anything about my decision…

32 : the view is open for sale for “friends and family”… I am neither… just got an apointment because I’m a tenant in EC1… did you walk in the sales office? did you call for an apointment? Not marketing it doesn’t mean it’s closed for sale… you just need to be proactive….

What a ‘tard. I mean trying to put a positive spin on this is ridiculous.

Gioia = an ahole who has been nothing but bad for LIC

That is unless of course they represent the sales offices of Rockrose or the Powerhouse or are one of the dellusional Queenswest.com crowd.

It is a good thing that the area is being cleaned up. It, however, is a bad thing that the way that this is being done is stirring up toxic waste and exposing nearby residents. Thank you Eric Gioa for representing the neighborhood so well and bringing this about.

And not for nothing I don’t trust for a second that they are actually cleaning the area to the extent that they say that they are. Judging from some of the dumbass posts from people trying to down play this above, it sounds like the toxic waste over on the waterfront has already gotten to some people’s brains.

People need to do their research on soil contamination. For instance, Dioxin contamination is very very serious (and accounts for most of the contamination in NY waterways). It affected an entire town in PA that was sprayed with contaminated waste oil (common for keeping down dust on dirt roads in the summer months). The town was abandoned until a very similar cleanup operation took place. They trucked the soil to special furnaces which super heated the soil to separate contaminants. Then after-burned the released contaminants. The result was clean soil. That town has since been converted into a nature reserve where plants and wildlife are flourishing. There have been no abnormal birth rates with the animals nor have there been congenital defects or anomalities. The soil removal was done to a depth of 10ft if I remember correctly.

As far as a connection to the area, I do work in the area but i have no relationship to the queenswest project. I have been around since long before the queenswest developement began and trust me the improvement in the grounds are exponential. The land was previously left to dumping and desolation.

Will the city clean up everything? Probably not, but they will have left it in better condition than it was before. Finally and most importantly the entire area is going to be cemented over when a new building is put up. I’m saying you shouldn’t be concerned. Let take precautions to make sure its done right, but let them do what they need to. The sooner they stop digging our out there the sooner the contamination is removed and the sooner the land can be returned to a productive use.

Also #47 is right, personally I would never live in one of those renovated lofts which were used to store chemicals, paints etc. There are tons of them in all of the bouroughs. NY used to be a heavy industry town. Where are you going to run to LI where everyone gets breast cancer from the drinking water? NJ? Good luck its probably worse there.