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Neighborhood News in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Tag: Greenpoint Oil Spill

Posted inCommunity

Greenpoint Oil Vapor Meeting Prompted by Multiple Complaints

by Aaron SimonMay 6, 2019

A group of Greenpoint residents have reported smelling oil and petroleum vapors recently in their apartments and will hold a meeting this week with local elected officials and concerned neighbors […]

Posted inNews

ExxonMobil Proposes Toxic Cleanup at 460 Kingsland Avenue, Comment Period Open

by Aaron SimonMarch 29, 2019March 29, 2019

The proposed cleanup plan for the 3.55 acre-site that was formerly an oil refinery owned by ExxonMobil at 460 Kingsland Ave. has been submitted and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation […]

Posted inCulture

Sister Francis Kress, Pioneer in Greenpoint Environmental Movement, Has Passed Away

by Geoff CobbJanuary 21, 2019March 3, 2022

Sister Francis Gerard Kress who Greenpointers profiled last year in its series on important local women passed away on January 17th in Brentwood, Long Island. She was 104 years old […]

Posted inCommunity, News

A Tree Grows in Greenpoint, and We’re About to Get 499 More

by Steph KoyfmanNovember 10, 2015

Last Friday, Greenpoint took a small step in the direction of better living up to its name. With one tree planted out of a proposed 500, the “Greening Greenpoint” project […]

Posted inCommunity, News

Tomorrow (10/20), ToxiCity Map Reveals Greenpoint & Williamsburg’s Contamination Trail

by Aaron SimonOctober 19, 2015October 19, 2015

Did you know that North Brooklyn’s industrial legacy left behind an alphabet soup of toxins – TCE, PCBs, phthalates, benzene, and many other chemicals – that’s lingering beneath the surface in many sections […]

Posted inCommunity, Events, News

GCEF Applicant Workshop Networking Event (11/13)

by GinaNovember 12, 2013

In case you still haven’t heard, Greenpoint is getting $19.5 million in funding from Exxon Mobile in retribution for that little (huge) oil spill that polluted our soil and waterways […]

Posted inCommunity, News

An Epistle from ExxonMobil About How They Will Wreck the Sidewalk

by JoelMarch 1, 2013

ExxonMobil dropped off a letter today at the apartment, no stamp or name and addressed only to “Dear Neighbor” in a tipped haphazard typewriter’s letters. This intimacy is creepy from […]

Posted inCommunity, News

Investigation of the Creek

by JoelJuly 18, 2011February 24, 2014

The largest polluters of Newtown Creek and environs have agreed, with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, to look at the damage. This will be the first step in the process […]



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