Public Comment Invited About Brownfield Cleanup Program Application for Site on Broadway, Brooklyn

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received a Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) application from 1510 Broadway, LLC. for a site known as the 1510 Broadway Dry Cleaner Site, site ID #C224280. This site is located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, within the County of Kings, and is located at 1510 Broadway.

A copy of the application and other relevant documents are available at the document repository located at the Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; or at the Brooklyn Community Board No. 16, 444 Thomas Boyland Street, Rm. 103, Brooklyn.

There are several ways to comment on BCP applications. Comments can be submitted to the site Project Manager Sarah Quandt, 625 Broadway, 12th Floor, Albany, NY 12233-7016; via email at sarah.quandt@dec.ny.gov; or by calling 518-402-9768. All comments must be submitted by September 28, 2018.

Site information can be viewed by entering the site ID noted above at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/index.cfm?pageid=3

What is the Brownfield Cleanup Program?

New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) is designed to encourage private-sector cleanups of brownfields and to promote their redevelopment as a means to revitalize economically blighted communities. The BCP is an alternative to “greenfield” (land not previously developed or contaminated) development and is intended to remove some of the barriers to, and provide tax incentives for, the redevelopment of brownfields. Since its inception (2003), the BCP has catalyzed the cleanup of more than 300 contaminated sites statewide and incentivized redevelopment. There are more than 350 active sites in the BCP.

Additional information on the State's Brownfield program is available at DEC’s website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8450.html