Author: admin

Nearly 85% of Greenpoint backyard soil samples show unsafe lead levels by EPA standards: study

Oct. 11, by Nathaly Pesantez

About 85 percent of soil samples collected from Greenpoint backyards indicate lead levels higher than the EPA’s safety standards, according to preliminary findings from a Columbia University doctoral student’s study.

With 264 samples pulled from 52 private Greenpoint backyards in a study done over the summer,…

Old Kosciuszko Bridge demolished, makes way for second span

October 1, Staff Report

The remaining sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge were demolished Sunday morning in an implosion.

The final pieces of the 78-year-old bridge—that connects Brooklyn and Queens–came down at 8 a.m. as part of a $873 million project to reconstruct the Kosciuszko Bridge.…