Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – In the ongoing community engagement process surrounding the environmental remediation of the toxic NuHart site [/nuhart-site-meeting-tonight/], another meeting will provide an outlet for concerned parents regarding a proposed school near the site. Local Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-33) will host a meeting about the school for local parents next week
Animals
(Photo by Ella Rabinovich)Early Friday morning, a neighbor discovered this shark washed up on the shores of Brighton Beach on May 12. The shark was about 3 feet long and injured, she said. So far, we have been unable to officially confirm this sighting. Police officials, the Parks Department,
Big Story
(Aerial photo submitted by reader)As of this week, 7,000 gallons of diesel oil — of the 27,000 spilled by a private fuel depot [/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay/] — have been recovered from the Gravesend Bay using concentric booms, the State DEC told BKLYNER. However, about 20,000 gallons remain at large in
Big Story
Aerial footage of the Gravesend Bay spill site, Saturday, April 1.(Photo by Hugo Smith.)A Brooklyn company quietly spilled thousands of gallons of heating oil into Gravesend Bay, BKLYNER has learned. The 27,000 gallon spill at Bayside Fuel Depot [http://www.baysidedepot.com] began before sunrise on Thursday,
Animals
Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz announced his third attempt at legislation to protect Sheepshead Bay’s swans from eradication passed the Assembly last week. Cymbrowitz has doggedly tried to place a moratorium on the state’s plan to cull New York’s
Bensonhurst
Construction around the Trump Village Shopping Center. (Photo: Chris McCreight) Neighbors are crying foul about construction taking place at the site of the 40-story tower [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/08/new-renderings-reveal-coney-islands-glass-tower-will-be-taller-than-expected/] to be built over the Trump Village Shopping Center — flagging the developer for working after-hours, violating lease terms,
Animals
Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is not backing down from his effort to protect Sheepshead Bay’s beloved swans. Cymbrowitz announced this week he has reintroduced a bill [http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A09289&
Animals
Swans, geese, and ducks in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sheepshead Bay’s swans have long been a target for extermination [/and-now-they-want-to-murder-sheepshead-bays-swans/] by the state. But a growing body of prominent environmentalists and conservationists say the evidence against these snow-white waterfowl – an indelible part of the neighborhood’s
News
Mute swans mingle with geese and ducks in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)For the second year in a row, Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have blocked plans to reduce the New York’s population of mute swans, the snow white birds that have
3140 Coney Island Avenue
A state-sponsored cleanup effort has purged a Brighton Beach lot of toxic chemicals, paving the way for the location to be turned into medical offices, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz announced Friday. According to Cymbrowitz’s office, the plot of land at 3140 Coney Island Avenue, near Ocean View Avenue, was contaminated
algae
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [http://www.dec.ny.gov/] reported high levels of blue-green algae blooms [http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/83310.html] in Prospect Park Lake last week. Based on lab testing, there are toxins in enough quantities to cause
DEC
Swans on Weber Court. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz)The state has released a new plan to manage the booming mute swan population, telling critics that if they don’t want to see the swans killed then they have to pay to keep them around. The revised plan, released Monday by
520 neptune ave
Renderings of the proposed tower. (Photo by Neal Storman)Developer Rubin Schron’s plan to build a skyscraper in Coney Island [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2015/01/massive-40-story-tower-proposed-brighton-coney-border-public-meeting-scheduled-wednesday/] is not going over well with residents. More than 700 Coney Island community members filled an auditorium at Abraham Lincoln High School
algae
[/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/prospect-park-boathouse1.jpg] A local dog group is spreading the word about the possibility that toxic algae in Prospect Park Lake is making pups sick. FIDO recently noted [https://www.facebook.com/FIDOBrooklyn/posts/10152716419059806]on its Facebook page that one of its member’s dogs “appear
Amy Peterson
The sediment-filled waste coming out of a covered sewer overflow pipe. (Source: Pete Castro)Event flier. Click to enlarge.We broke the story last week about neighbors’ concerns over potentially toxic runoff from a Department of Environmental Protection operation to clean out the sewers in Coney Island [/locals-say-toxic-sludge-spilling-coney-island-creek-city-clears-clogged-sewers/] . Now Councilman
bills
Photo by Eric JankiewiczThe following is a press release issued yesterday by the offices of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz: New York’s mute swans may at last have a voice in their future. The Assembly today passed a bill introduced by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) that would effectively save the state’