The city Office of Environmental Remediation is preparing to clean up the site where a four-story hotel will be built.
The office is proposing to take several steps to remediate the site at 132-10 149 Ave. in South Jamaica, including the excavation of soil and the installation of a vapor barrier system.
It also plans to place a 30-inch thick concrete slab underneath the building to “prevent human exposure to residual soil/fill remaining under the site.”
The site requires environmental remediation because the city found “volatile organic compounds, pesticides, PCBs and metals” in the soil where the hotel will be located.
Why are we still building hotels when the ones we already have are being repurposed as homeless shelters? Oh, I think I just answered my own question.
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it was used as a sewage treatment facility. Eew!
Since when is 132-10 149th Avenue in South Jamaica?
Yup, it's South Jamaica.
Who is building the hotel? If the builder won't build unless the site is cleaned up let it be developed by someone who will pay for the clean up. Why does the taxpayer have to foot the bill for everything? Do we get money back if the hotel does well? Taking it in the rear again, Thank You Mayor DeBlasio, May I Have Another?
With all of this crap going on in every Queens neighborhood , how the hell could Queens be made America's #1 destination!!!?????? Lonely Planet needs to be investigated and the truth about this needs to be revealed .
you know all this planning for affordable housing was initiated by the previous little mayor about 6 years ago. a lot of these buildings should have been built already but everyone knows what has been erected in the time since then,big glass douche towers for the spoiled poser libertines and pied-a-terre tax evaders.
granted the blaz's bleeding heart is in the right place,but these prospective projects don't look good at all.And for his 10 year plan to make the city affordable for the perpetual poor of us,he is in a rush to get it done that they are building on toxic sites.
what was there before that they are going frost a pile of poison shit with concrete?
The article says 149th Avenue, which puts it just outside of JFK Airport, Crapper.
Why doesn't the article dig deeper (and also where are the elected officials from the community) in regards to all the hazardous contaminants (volatile organic compounds, pesticides, PCBs (cause of many cancers) and metals”)that have been there for years, while there are people living in close proximity to this site. Even way before this crap hotel was going to be built, why was this not looked into.
Yes, and that's included in the map I linked to.
I apologize for getting away from the overall point of the article and your post, but that's not South Jamaica. That's more South Ozone Park than anything else, if 132nd Street is the nearest cross street.
The Van Wyck separates So Jamaica and So Ozone Park, and this address is on the So Jamaica side.
South Jamaica, South Ozone Park. Potato, Crime Ridden Ghetto.
This is also below the Belt Parkway, and South Jamaica doesn't go below there. According to Google Maps, it doesn't go below Rockaway and Baisley Boulevards, which are to the north:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/South+Jamaica,+Queens,+NY/@40.6801095,-73.7888412,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c266d9fda8bd0d:0x73d45a0e8d3032a2?hl=en
In any event, this doesn't take away from the point of the post, which Crapper is exactly right about.
According to Google Maps, this parcel is included in the zip code and in the neighborhood known as south Jamaica.
Why on earth should lonely planet be investigated. they're entitled to their opinions.
This is like building a Hotel in Love Canal. That 30" slab had better extend to the perimeter of the property, not just the building . Then again,Citi Field is partially built on top of a toxic waste site and no one cares about that,either.
Lonely Planet was wined and dined by developers and The Queens Machine and forced to write that bogus story!
It will come to a head soon.
South Jamaica HOTEL??? Hmmm...
You gotta be kidding! South Jamaica....a site for a tourist hotel? Do they offer bodyguard service?
The planet must be pretty lonely if the only option left is to come to Queens.
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