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
With a lot of time left on the borough-based jail project, they want to see something change immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There’s this gray kind of crushed fireproofing material,” said Lori Richmond, who lives across the street from the construction site. “We’ve seen polyurethane foam.\u201d <\/p>\n
With no current air monitoring at the worksite, concerns about what they could be exposed to grow every day, while the work being done shows no end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week we had actual debris,\u201d said 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’s private patios.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbors say they\u2019ve been forced to clean it all up, and talks with the construction company in charge, Tutor Perini Construction, don\u2019t offer much help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey keep telling us, \u2018Well, we can’t determine that it’s from our site,\u2019\u201d said Richmond. \u201c\u2018We don’t know. No, that’s not us.\u2019 It’s very frustrating because we know what we’re seeing. We’re not making it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents also say they were promised ongoing air monitoring of the site throughout the entire process, in addition to an on-site safety manager. Yet neither of those promises appears to be in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For now, they\u2019ll keep advocating as long as the construction continues. <\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-228227","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\/228227","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=228227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}