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Gentile Calls On EPA To Make Waste Transfer Station A Superfund Site

Photo submitted to Bensonhurst Bean by anonymous tipster.Councilman Vincent Gentile is joining the chorus of voices calling [/coltons-anti-waste-task-force-demands-epa-investigate-garbage-station-work-site/#.VfB4eGTBzGc] for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate the construction site of the city’s planned Gravesend Bay Waste Transfer Station. Last week, Gentile penned a letter to New York

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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 [/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 (2800 Ocean Parkway) Wednesday night to

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Jamaica Bay Pipeline Moves Forward As Feds Issue Favorable Report; Public Hearings To Be Held This Week

Source: WilliamsThe controversial natural gas pipeline, proposed to run underneath the Rockaways, through Jamaica Bay, and into Floyd Bennett Field National Park, has been plodding along the approval process for several months, with the latest news being the issuance of an apparently favorable draft statement by the federal government. (Read

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Downsides To Plastic Bag Bans? Studies Suggest Risk Alongside Benefits

Source: Urban Woodswalker via flickrThere might be reason for the City Council to pause on their plans to limit the use of plastic bags, and it concerns health and safety. As we wrote in our article on the City Council’s effort to charge a 10-cent fee to anyone given

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Judge Greenlights Gravesend Bay Waste Transfer Station, Tossing Colton Lawsuit

The incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay in 1973, now the site at the center of a major Bensonhurst environmental debate. (Source: Source: Arthur Tress via DailyDOCUMERICA)The ruling of a State Supreme Court justice set back the efforts of those opposed to the building of a new

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Plumb Beach Repairs Continue In April, Parking Lot To Be Closed And Bike Path Detoured Through Summer

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced plans to kick off the second phase of construction on Plumb Beach [/tag/plumb-beach/] in April, but say they’ll have to close the parking lot and detour the damaged bike path until the end of the year. The Army Corps

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Coast Guard, DEP Cleaning Up Spilled Fuel In Sheepshead Bay Marina

Coast Guard and Department of Environmental Protection workers were at the Sheepshead Bay marina this morning, attempting to rein in spilled fuel that collected around the Ocean Avenue footbridge. The fuel leaked into Sheepshead Bay from boats that were ripped apart and sank during Hurricane Sandy, just one of the