{"id":228049,"date":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","slug":"news-12-connecticut-neighbors-say-downtown-brooklyn-jail-construction-site-dust-and-debris-are-entering-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228049\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Neighbors Say Downtown Brooklyn Jail Construction Site Dust And Debris Are Entering Their Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents living near the Downtown Brooklyn jail construction site say they\u2019re fed up \u2014 claiming dust, debris, and other unknown substances have been making their way into their living spaces.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With a lot of time left on the borough-based jail project, they want to see something change immediately. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Whether it\u2019s the dust, spray materials, other unknown substances or even piles of trash, residents who live next to the site say the ongoing issue has become rampant since April. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With no current air monitoring at the worksite, concerns about what they could be exposed to grow every day \u2014 while the work being done sees no end. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cLast week we had actual debris,\u201d said Lori Richmond, \u201ctrash, all kinds of stuff that flew off of the site into our residential property, into the courtyard where children are playing on people&#8217;s private patios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A partial stop-work order went into effect at the site last Wednesday. Just two days after, the order was lifted.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Meanwhile, residents say the conditions have not changed for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents living near the Downtown Brooklyn jail construction site say they\u2019re fed up \u2014 claiming dust, debris, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-228049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}