From The Politicker:
With Hurricane Sandy hitting New York, flooding has already occurred along the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. Though the worst floods are expected to occur this evening when high tide combines with the strongest part of the storm surge, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his deputies don’t expect the toxic waters to do serious damage. Politicker asked the mayor whether he expected heavy flooding on the Gowanus tonight and what environmental or health risks the waters might pose for residents at his press conference at the Office of Emergency Management in Downtown Brooklyn early this evening.
“Tomorrow morning, it will be all over,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “It will be all over late tonight. Actually, the Gowanus Canal flooding should be going down in a couple hours.”
Mayor Bloomberg also invited Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway to weigh in on the situation with the canal. Mr. Holloway said he didn’t think the waters would put people in danger and he’s confident the city can clean up and flooding along the waterway, which is one of the most polluted in the country.
4 comments:
They know that folks in Brooklyn are a bit feisty so they need to address the inevitable reaction to inviting families to raise their children on a toxic brownfield.
Why no attention to Newtown Creek?
Queens folks know that Newtown Creek is just as bad but will say nothing because they want their pols not to think poorly of them so they will keep their mouths shut.
Of course he doesn't. Why should he care about the people who live nearby?
Providing "luxury" living to dumb hipsters puts money into developers' pockets!
The Gowanus canal nabe can become the Venice of NYC....LOL!
Gondola anyone?
No problemo, if you live on a houseboat.
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