The News | 7.9.10
The developer Toll Bros. officially bailed on its plans to create a 500-unit complex along the Gowanus Canal, citing the Superfund designation as the reason. The vice president of the company told the Brooklyn Paper, "It just didn’t financially make sense to close on the properties and then have to wait 15 to 20 years until we could develop them."
The temperatures are slowly dropping, but many residents are still without power. WNYC spoke to Bed-Stuy residents living on a block that went without electricity from Tuesday night until Friday morning. It was the only block in the area to suffer for that long.
While working to restore power to a block in Williamsburg, a fire broke out in one of the block's buildings. The superintendent rushed through the building, warning all of the residents, but quickly found herself on the roof with smoke all around her. The ConEd crew heard her screams and rescued her.
A judge from the July 4th hot dog eating contest at Coney Island wrote an op-ed for the NY Observer saying that she believes justice was not served during the competition. "Kobayashi would have upped everybody's game – and this year's battle sorely needed that," she says.
With the Gulf Oil spill hanging over everyone's heads, Senators in Albany are weighing the pros and cons of drilling for natural gas in Upstate New York. Many people are concerned that the drilling could have horrible consequences because it would be on or near the city’s watershed land with reservoirs that supply drinking water to nine million people in the city, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
Photo credit: Brooklyn Paper
