Toxi City: Brooklyn’s Brownfields


Return to the Navy Yard-October 17th

Posted in Brooklyn Navy Yard by rmichals on the November 8, 2008
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rm_20081017_4523-11Water and Work’s first trip the navy yard was during torrential rain. We were invited back on October 17th. Building 128 was a warehouse and also used to build ships.

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Brownfield-Fulton Gas Works site-October 10th

Posted in Brownfield, Gowanus Canal by rmichals on the November 8, 2008
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I walked by the corner of Degraw and Nevins on which is now a public park. These two men were playing handball. I wondered if they knew that the site was a brownfield.

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Brownfield-October 10th

Posted in Brownfield, Gowanus Canal by rmichals on the November 2, 2008
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This site, 430 Carroll Street, is a quandary. Supposedly there is a brownfield on this actively used site. There is a parking lot and some kind of business. I asked a postal worker what she knew. Nothing was the answer. She was feeling some sympathy for me because as I took this shot this a dog jumped out at me. There was a fence between me and the dog but I was visibly startled. the postal worker told me that this happened to her all the time.

Hall of Science

Posted in Mei Ling by rmichals on the November 2, 2008
Mei Ling at the New York Hall of Science

Mei Ling at the New York Hall of Science