Rescue Me: Greenpoint brownfield site gets a cleanup – and a new apartment building
Eye On Real Estate
Once upon a time, 1133 Manhattan Ave. was the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Rail Yard, one of Greenpoint’s polluted properties.
Then it was deemed a brownfield site – and was included in a state Department of Environmental Conservation program that offers private developers tax credits for cleaning up places possibly contaminated by hazardous wastes or petroleum, or both.
A developer, the Domain Cos., got to work cleaning it up – a prelude to building a big apartment house.
There was petroleum contamination from stored fuel oil, along with other contaminants in the soil, Domain principal Matt Schwartz told Eye on Real Estate. Primary remediation work took about a month. Over the course of a year, during foundation work, sullied soil was removed.