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Residents Demand Answers From Developers Of Proposed 40-Story Tower At Trump Village Shopping Center

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

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Is The Algae In Prospect Park Making Dogs Sick?

[/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

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Treyger To Host Public Forum With DEP In Response To Coney Island Flooding, Concerns Over Sewer Spillage

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

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Bill Protecting Mute Swans Passes Assembly

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’

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Sheepshead Swans Get Stay Of Execution As Agency Explores Alternative Methods Of Population Control

Photo by Brian HooIn a rare victory for Southern Brooklyn wildlife, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Friday that it will revise its plan to eradicate the state’s 2,200 mute swans [/draft-mute-swans/] and consider non-lethal methods to keep numbers down. The reversal came on

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Photos: Resident Gets Close-Up Look At Red Tailed Hawk Hanging On His Balcony

Update (6:16 p.m.): Reader Christina “Know-it-all” K. wrote in to correct me: it’s a red tailed hawk. A juvenile, which is why its tail isn’t red yet. And maybe this guy is a relative of Pale Male [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Male], the first

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Authorities Failing To Notify Public Of Sewage Plant Spills, Despite New Law

Photo by PayPaulWhen it comes to sewage spilling into our waterways, people might not really want to know – but they should. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/adequate-public-notice-sewage-spills-new-york-waterways-lacking-study-article-1.1411231] that while sewage plant operators are required to report spills to health authorities right away,

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Air Quality Health Advisory Issued In Our Area For Friday

Not sure if you guys have noticed, but it’s mighty warm outside today, and it looks like we’re under an Air Quality Health Advisory until 11pm tonight (May 31). The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation recommends that “active children, adults, and people with lung disease, such as

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Authorities Outline Sandy’s Impact On Jamaica Bay, Short- And Long-Term

Source: Howard N2GOT / FlickrA cadre of city, state and federal representatives spoke of Superstorm Sandy’s impact on Jamaica Bay last Tuesday at the latest Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting, according to a report by Rockawave [http://www.rockawave.com/news/2013-02-01/Top_Stories/Standing_Room_Only_At_Jamaica_Bay_

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Air Monitors To Be Added To Areas Hardest Hit By Sandy

Source: Nigel Chadwick via Wikimedia CommonsCity and state environmental agencies are adding three new air monitors in regions most affected by Superstorm Sandy. The air monitor stations will measure fine particle matter in order to collect data on what, if any, air contamination resulted from Sandy’s impact. Air monitors

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National Grid Shares Details Of Paerdegat Basin Oil Spill

Source: Geoffrey Croft via awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.comWhen we first broke the story about the Paerdegat Basin oil spill [/oil-spill-brooklyn-national-grid/], in which an estimated 800 to 1,400 gallons of natural gas condensate, compressor oil and turbine oil poured into the waters near Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, info was scarce. Representatives

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1973 Photo Of The Gravesend Bay Dump Site

Source: Arthur Tress via DailyDOCUMERICAThis photograph depicts the old incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay. The site is currently at the center of a major Bensonhurst environmental debate. For over 30 years, the dump burned NYC garbage without a permit. It was finally shut down in the mid-90’