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    In the cold waste 2

    Soil remediation tent – photo by Mitch Waxman

    All the poisons in the mud will leach out, in the end.

    The parable is exemplified at Anable Basin, at 5th street, where a second attempt at remediating the industrial history and unmentioned past of Ravenswood and Hunters Point is underway. This extant of the QueensWest development, whose previous metastasizes eradicated the historic district between the LIRR powerhouse and the LIRR Gantry docks, is troubled by environmental concerns that have postponed the plans of the masters.

    Lessons learned there have been incorporated by the municipal chamberlins and chancellors, to avoid such expensive delays in a newer and larger project called Queens South just beginning at Hunters Point.

    newtownpentacle.com/2009/12/30/in-the-cold-waste-2/

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