[CPEO-BIF] NuHart Plastic Manufacturing site, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel]

CLEANUP CONTINUES AT NUHART PLASTICS SITE AHEAD OF NEW MIXED-USE CONSTRUCTION


By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklyn Paper (NY)
March 14, 2022

Cleanup is moving along at the former NuHart Plastic Manufacturing plant in Greenpoint as a developer prepares to build two mixed-use buildings on the heavily contaminated lot.

The western half of the 1-acre site, located between Dupont, Franklin, and Clay streets, was named to the state Superfund list in 2010 after potentially-hazardous chemicals were discovered in the soil, left over from nearly 50 years of plastic and vinyl production at the NuHart factory, which closed in 2004. Last year, Madison Realty Capital started taking ownership of the plot after its old owner filed for bankruptcy protection. Taking over NuHart West also means taking responsibility for the Superfund activities deemed necessary by the state, and Madison also applied for and began a Brownfield cleanup of NuHart East.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/cleanup-nuhart-plastics-ahead-new-construction/

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Lenny Siegel
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)