by Gina 
How many people can say that they live in a neighborhood that has scheduled dredging? That’s something to brag about, kind of like when you have a really disgusting, oozing leg wound that you really want to show people, just to prove to them that it’s super gross.
Beginning this week, the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection will run a 6 week process of…
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isn’t hydrogen sulfite gas poisonous?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
who is paying for them to do this and rebuild the tank? are the developers? what a massive waste (no pun) of public funds
Multiple Choice (choose one):
When musing on Newtown Creek ….
A. My forehead contracts into a whirlpool of a wrinkle making my lower lip protrude like a lamprey out of a paint bucket.
B. My tongue tugs my bowels towards my ears stoppering my eyes with murky apprehension.
C. My nostrils keep rhythm to my digestive enzymes scrambling for cover along the grated surface of my esophagus.
D. My palms clasp my knees as my glottis flaps freely into the morning breeze.
So George Klein aka Greenpoint Landing buys this waterfront parcel now occupied by the Sludge Tank from the City of New York for a mere $2M. This site will be for one of the Towers (the “affordable” housing is actually being built at 33 Eagle not the Sludge Tank site. So the braintrust in government who made this crappy deal only to reap $2M, now have to dredge the Newtown Creek, build a new sludge tank, and demolish the old one. What will this cost all of us taxpayers? $15M? $30M? Only Greenpoint Landing benefits from this. What a crappy deal. Thank you Messrs Bloomberg, Levin, et. al.