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- Sunnyside Sacrifices
- 11th photo of Spring
- On eminent domain
- Con Ed defended in city report
- Developing Toxic Cinema Site
- Whitestone Street Widening To Start
- House of the Rising Cell
- Tables turned on Pinky at GOP dinner
- Group gives thumbs down to Forest Hills hotel
- Coney Island mermaids battle developer
- Tides of change
- 10th photo of Spring
- Destroy by Development
- Whither Willets Point Redevelopment
- Is the NY Times contaminating the wetlands?
- Sunnyside landmarking - yay and nay
- Bird's Eye View of Your Tax Dollars at Play
- Bloomberg says...
- Pinky supporters hate QC
- Jamaica Rezoning Hits the Sun
- 9th photo of Spring
- Vintage Weiner
- NYS never saw AY business plan
- Kings of Compassion
- Think your City Council member is worth $1M?
- Crappifying Jamaica Estates
- What $720 million will get us
- A letter to Councilman Monserrate
- Pollution threatens 380,000 Queens lives
- Your tax dollars at work, continued
- Set Up For a Fall
- 8th photo of Spring
- These are NOT new buildings
- Building Collapse in East Harlem
- 7th photo of Spring
- Preservationists Rallying Cry
- Korean War Memorial debate rages on
- Congratulations, Astoria!
- Let's play a game...part 1
- 6th photo of Spring
- Now NYC wants to save churches?
- Chuck vs. lenders
- Yuppie Baby Boom
- Maspeth Mystery Building
- Carnegie Library set for crap pile
- 5th photo of Spring
- The hottest corner in Queens
- The Far East meets East Elmhurst
- A Crap Above, part 2
- 4th photo of Spring
- How they do things in China
- A bump in the bike road
- Cell towers: friends or foes?
- A great reason to live in Queens
- Simonson Says Crap
- CB 8 & CB 12 torpedo Jamaica rezoning plan
- Old folks at home
- Calling Jacob Riis
- CEO of NYHS needs new glasses
- Ironing out Iron Triangle plans
- Pinky loves Katz's constituents, turns back on his...
- 3rd photo of Spring
- Heavy Load
- What you are looking at is NOT oil
- 9 million people by 2030, eh?
- Great, now investigate building contractors
- 2nd photo of Spring
- Add-on troubles in Little Neck
- FNY on FMCP
- Van Loony
- Renovate Queens Plaza
- Inside Edgardo's Dream Home
- Fireboat in peril
- First photo of Spring
- Why is this guy so cheap?
- Another scoop from the Katz litterbox
- Calling out the Council
- Did Pinky taunt senior citizen at mall?
- The road to Queens is paved with crap
- Port Chester eminent domain update
- Sanford Avenue Bomb Shelter
- More people, less services
- Liu to Western Queens: Go Suck on Truck Fumes!
- The Council and our environment
- Serf on Sunnyside
- Presidential Palace
- Trib predicts councilmembers' future
- Big-rigs face big fines
- Monuments to be proud of
- Benepe on building parks
- How Brian spent all that money
- Crap Cluster
- Another overseas junket
- City job opening
- DN on Iron Triangle Plan
- Think Spring
- More Parks Ineptitude
- 159th Street Parking Lot
- Happy St. Patrick's Day from QC!
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5 comments:
Why isn't this stuff made public?
Why are only developers privy to this?
Does this imply that NYC government has only one constituency: developers?
Fine. Then let the developers pay the taxes for the city salaries.
As someone who suffers from many health conditions related to environmental issues, I am appalled at the lack of care and respect for the citizens of Queens. I believe I have discovered a cancer cluster of Polycythemia Vera in Queens and for the last 4 years, have been unable to get anyone other than City Councilman Tony Avella to take my concerns seriously, even though my anecdotal research weighs heavily in favor of the need for the collection of hard core data. Councilman Avella's office met with the same stonewalling that I had been experiencing.
By the way, a cluster of Polycythemia Vera has been confirmed in the town of Hometown, Pennsylvania:
http://www.hometownhazards.com/2006/11/polycythemia-vera-probe-gets.html
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, they would be extremely appreciated. Please keep in mind that I am not well and cannot do a lot of the things that I was able to do a few years ago. Thank you for help and cooperation.
Alan
Looks like something REALLY stinks in Maspeth ;)
That's why it's usually safer to buy a circa 1900s or 1920's house, where it was likely then to be on virgin land or far away from old factories.
New construction is more likely to be built in formerly toxic areas (unless it's in-fill housing).
There were sites in Queens (Bulova Watch Company???) that may be contaminated with radioactive Radium. (Watches with hands that "glowed in the dark"...remember)?
I remember when we first move to Queens.......was it Sylvania or Bell Labs.....the current Bay Club (?) site. I believe there was a "contained" (or was it contained?) small explosion, involving radioactive material, that occured there in the early 1950s. The explosion incident made the papers. It would be interesting to do some research on this.
Are there any emerging patterns of health problems among the residents today in this area (directly accross from Fort Totten....with even more problems)?
Of course it would be unlikely but....... it should be required that an environmental disclosure statement accompanying a purchase contract be given to the perspective homeowner....before he buys.
A law requires that a house is be termite free....why not toxin free?
Yeah, I know I'm dreaming. Those real estate "termites" would be lobbying in full force to keep a law like this off the books!
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