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Cobble Hill’s
traffi c
DEEDS nightmare
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Cobble Hill civic gurus
say offi cials at the Department
of Transportation are
doing a shoddy job providing
oversight as three major
developments at the former
Long Island College Hospital
site fl ood the area with
construction vehicles, causing
traffi c jams and posing a
danger to pedestrians.
“I just see this getting
worse and worse, and you
have people trying to navigate
through all of these huge
construction vehicles,” said
the president of the Cobble
Hill Association Amy Breedlove.
“I don’t know what to do
to make the DOT have that
concern for human life.”
Dumbo-based developer
Fortis Property Group is in
the process of erecting two
15- and 36-story towers on opposing
sides of Hicks Street
as part of the fi ve-building
project around the former
hospital campus which the
company has since dubbed
River Park.
Meanwhile, New York
University plans to build a
medical center in front of the
taller tower once it acquires
the land from Fortis some
time in the coming months.
State trying to
backtrack on
Gowanus cleanup:
advocates Photo Courtesy of Your CBD Store
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
State conservation honchos
want to lower New
York’s water-quality standards
— for the Gowanus
Canal!
As if Brooklyn’s Nautical
Purgatory didn’t have
enough problems, officials
at the state Department of
Environmental Conservation
want to reclassify the
notoriously fetid waterway
in a move that activists fear
would strip the canal of
much-needed resources.
“We do see removing
this language as backtracking
on the designated use of
these waterways,” said Erin
Doran, an attorney for the
water-quality activist group
Riverkeeper.
Brooklyn’s putrid, manmade
tributary is currently
classified as a Class SD saline
surface, which means
the canal “shall be suitable
for primary swimming
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