Toxic tinge Suspect cuffed
COURIER L 12 IFE, OCT. 11-17, 2019
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Police arrested a 30-year-old man
who allegedly broke into a neighbor’s
home and molested a sleeping
woman on Oct. 6.
The suspect allegedly entered the
victim’s home near Sixth Avenue
and 40th Street through an unlocked
door leading into a basement apartment
at around 3:30 am, and proceeded
to grope the 25-year-old woman’s
gentiles, according to police.
The victim awoke as the man
was touching her, causing him to
fl ee the apartment toward Fifth Avenue,
cops said.
Police arrested the man, who
lives just feet away from the allged
crime, on Oct. 8, slapping him with
felony charges of burglary, sexual
abuse of a physically helpless victim,
and criminal tresspassing.
BY ROSE ADAMS
Usually it’s the Gowanus Canal
that turns people green!
Environmental officials planted
a harmless green dye in the Gowanus
Canal on Thursday to test
nearby sewer lines, turning the putrid
canal into a neon emerald shade
that alarmed some passersby.
“This is wild,” said Janell Baptista,
who posted a video of the
glowing Gowanus from the Carroll
Street Bridge on his Twitter account
on Thursday afternoon. “Just
worried for the people around this
area who live here!”
Edward Timber, a spokesman
for the Department of Environmental
Protection, claimed that the dye
was harmless, and that it would dissipate
naturally. By Friday, the canal
had turned a more subtle shade
of turquoise, and locals familiar
with the notoriously contaminated
Superfund site remained unfazed
by the odd hue.
“I wouldn’t have noticed,” said
Sarah King, a Bedford-Stuyvesant
resident who works near the canal. “I
SEEING GREEN: The DEP poured a harmless green dye into sewers that funnel into the
Gowanus Canal by the Carroll Street Bridge on Thursday. Janell Baptista
think I only notice if it smells worse.”
Other residents said that the
filthy canal dons different shades of
green that change with the seasons,
like foliage.
“In the summer, it’s sort of a lime
green,” said Sarah Kovacs, a Gowanus
resident of 10 years, who added
that the river’s jade coloring was actually
a bit of an improvement.
“It looks clearer,” she said.
Another Brooklyn resident also
praised the canal’s new color, but
noted that it was far from naturallooking.
“It’s kinda pretty,” siad Danny
Walton. “But lots of pretty things
are terrible.”
in grope case
Green dye dumped
in Brooklyn’s
Nautical Purgatory
Wanted: Police were seeking this man in
connection with a home invasion where a
25-year-old woman was molested. NYPD
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