SCHENECTADY Superfund cleanup on tap for city street Brandywine corridor to get needed help BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Kathleen Moore at 395-3120 or moore@dailygazette.com.
The deteriorating commercial corridor of Brandywine Avenue is getting a little bit of help from the state Superfund program. The program will clean up ground pollution at a vacant building near Rite Aid, at the former Marlou’s Formal Wear. The hope is to restore the land and then encourage commercial development there. Groundwater and soil are polluted and the Department of Environmental Conservation is now beginning to investigate the extent of the contamination, which consists of dry-cleaning fluids, one of which depletes ozone. The others are considered toxic carcinogens. No timeline has been announced yet for the cleanup. The commercial section of Brandywine Avenue stretches from State Street to the Interstate 890 interchange, a two-block area that was once filled with stores. Now there are seven active businesses and five empty buildings, including one with floor to-ceiling windows that have been filled in with bricks. But the traffic count is high — 25,000 cars drive the busy road each workday — and the owners who remain say business is good. They just have to shoo away the “crackheads and hookers” to make way for the customers, they said. “This business does pretty good,” said John Bernardo of Brandywine Video Electronics, who has had to call police to get prostitutes off his stoop. ......................>>>>....................>>>>.........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00702&AppName=1
Metroplex Money???? This guy has got to be kidding. What is he smoking? The only areas of the city that get it are where the insiders are. There is no way this area of the city will see a dime of Metroplex money. I can see it now. They come thru and shutdown all the businesses around State and Brandywine. They have to get under these building so down they go. How else will they be able to remove all the contaminated ground. Just wait and see.
If they roust the druggies they will just move to another area of the city. They need to cut the massive supply of drugs. Have some serious drug busts! and not these little piddly ones they waist so much time on.
Metroplex Money???? This guy has got to be kidding. What is he smoking? The only areas of the city that get it are where the insiders are. There is no way this area of the city will see a dime of Metroplex money. I can see it now. They come thru and shutdown all the businesses around State and Brandywine. They have to get under these building so down they go. How else will they be able to remove all the contaminated ground. Just wait and see.
If they roust the druggies they will just move to another area of the city. They need to cut the massive supply of drugs. Have some serious drug busts! and not these little piddly ones they waist so much time on.
Cracking down on drug dealers/addicts is like pi$$ing in the wind. If there is a demand....there will be a supplier........FOR SURE!!!!
They have to lower the welfare package and do a REAL AUDIT!! Section 8 allowances also need to be adjusted. Although don't hold your breath. It is the democop, socialist, liberals that have created this dumbed down society...................... easier to control!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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