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Cancer costs $1
Maybe I'm too cynical. And maybe big corporations just love kids and hate money. Either way I still can't shake the feeling that when New York City paid $1 to Keyspan for the former site of the Elmhurst Gas Tanks to convert it into a public park, the City got ripped off.
KeySpan has worked extensively with the State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination, to clean up the property and prepare it for public use.
If you say so, Bloomie. But it still feels like the City just bought a Superfund site and absolved Keyspan of any liability if the remediation isn't quite as complete as everyone thought it was. Elmhurst isn't midtown Manhattan, but even real estate in Queens is worth a lot of money. (Don't get snippy with me in the comments; I spent over 20 years receiving mail in 11366. I know my Queens.)
If Keyspan sold it for a buck, that ground is poison.
(Via Gothamist)
Posted by Charles Star on 11/07/2005 | Permalink
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Hey, if the chemicals can somehow stop those Queens monkeys from wearing Italian horn amulets, I'm all for the park!
Posted by: sensay | Nov 8, 2005 8:40:00 AM
you are cynical. they are remediating the site. hell, wasn't the UN essentially built on a brownfield? sites like these are the last available land for new housing and parks in NYC so get used to it.
Posted by: anon | Nov 8, 2005 12:57:31 PM
you are cynical. but that doesn't mean you're wrong. they have probably not remediated the site. Sites like keyspans's are not the last available for new housing and parks. they should start building on the cemeteries and golf courses. cause dead people and almost dead people don't give kids cancer.
Posted by: bucko | Nov 8, 2005 1:51:39 PM
Maybe so, anon (if that's your real name), but I remain suspicious. I guess I don't know what it says about me that I would have been less worried if the City actually bought the property for a reasonable price.
Posted by: Charles Star | Nov 8, 2005 2:18:55 PM
Maybe so, anon (if that's your real name)
Thanks Charles Star for the laughs.
Posted by: Claudia | Nov 8, 2005 4:39:06 PM
