4 MARCH 21, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Group sees a green vision for Newtown Creek
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
During their most recent meeting
in Middle Village, Community
Board 5 heard a presentation
from the Waterfront Alliance on
potentially developing the portion of
Newtown Creek that runs adjacent to
the district for ecological resilience
and recreation in the model of Hunters
Point South Park which was completed
over the summer.
Sarah Dougherty, a program
associate with the organization,
encouraged community leaders to
work with companies that may own
different industrial facilities along
Newtown Creek to not only bring
modern methods of flood mitigation
to the heavily industrial waterfront
of CB6 open the rehabilitate the toxic
waterway for activities like boating
and kayaking.
“A lot of the work we do is meeting
with different landowners and
helping them go through questions
they have about how to make their
sites more sustainable. They went
through Sandy or they still go
through Sandy, and they understand
that flood risk is a big problem and
they want to try to address that,”
Dougherty said. “We did a rendering
of different options they can do to
make their site more sustainable
by increasing wetlands, taking out
some of that concrete bulkhead to
make a more resilient shoreline …
Also putting in public access to allow
Heavy industries line the Newtown Creek, but the Waterfront Alliance believes that the polluted waterway could
one day become a hub for recreation. Photo: Mark Hallum/RIDGEWOOD TIMES
people to not just get to the water but
to get on the water.”
Waterfront Alliance has given
their Waterfront Edge Design
Guidelines certification to the EDC’s
$100 million redesigns to Hunters
Point South which transformed the
industrial corner of Long Island City
into a model for storm resilience
through manmade wetlands rather
than a seawall and also advocated
for the launch of what is now
NYC Ferry.
Working industrial waterfronts
can also offer this level of protection
from storm surge and recreation,
Dougherty said, using an example
from Hunts Point in the Bronx where
a former cement plant was turned into
a recreational waterfront. Much of
the industry along the waterfront of
CB6, however, is still working with its
own cement plant south of the Grand
Street Bridge which may finally get
a rebuild after 16 years of advocacy
from CB6 and stakeholders.
The rebuild of the bridge will suit
the needs of these business which
use barges and moveable bridges to
transport commodities.
Rego Pk. man indicted for slaying girlfriend in R’wood
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
The Rego Park man accused of
violently stabbing his pregnant
girlfriend to death in the lobby
of a Ridgewood apartment building
last month was back in court on
Friday for arraignment on a threecount
indictment.
Anthony Hobson, 48, of 64th
Avenue was indicted by a grand jury
on second-degree murder, criminal
possession and tampering with
physical evidence for the Feb. 3
slaying of Jennifer Irigoyen, 35. She
was 14-weeks pregnant at the time;
her unborn child also died. Hobson
turned himself into police fi ve days
aft er the homicide.
“This is the absolute worst outcome
of domestic violence,” Chief Assistant
District Attorney John Ryan said.
“The victim was stabbed repeatedly
in her abdomen, neck and torso,
subsequently killing her and the
unborn child. The defendant now
faces the possibility of spending the
rest of his life in prison as a result of
this heinous crime.”
Sources familiar with the
investigation said that Hobson and
Irigoyen got into an argument in
the lobby of the Myrtle Avenue
apartment house at around 1 a.m. on
Feb. 3. Irigoyen, whose residential
address was listed as Saunders Street
in Rego Park, was said to be living in
the Ridgewood building at the time.
According to prosecutors, security
camera inside the building showed
Hobson allegedly dragging Irigoyen
out of the third-floor apartment
where she had been staying and into
the stairwell. There, he allegedly
stabbed Irigoyen multiple times in
the neck, torso and abdomen before
fl eeing the scene.
Offi cers from the 104th Precinct
and EMS units responded to the
scene. Paramedics rushed Irigoyen
to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center,
where she and her unborn child were
later pronounced dead.
Hobson has been held without bail
since turning himself in to the 104th
Precinct stationhouse in Ridgewood
on Feb. 8 and subsequently booked
on murder charges. At his March 15
arraignment on the indictment, he
was again remanded into custody
without bail and ordered to return
to court on May 22. The suspect
faces up to 25 years to life in prison
if convicted.
Anthony Hobson is escorted from the 104th Precinct stationhouse in
Ridgewood on Feb. 8. Photo by Robert Stridiron
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