Fountain Avenue (Brooklyn, New York)
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Fountain Avenue, located in Brooklyn, New York is a site off of the Belt Parkway, specifically named "Exit 15 Erskine Street". The area is mostly composed of landfill and has areas of swampland-like forest growth. Various nature groups, city groups, etc. are concerned with the development of this area. [1]
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[edit] History, Ecological concerns and other writings
Various tests of the Fountain Avenue area and landfills were conducted in 1985 and 1986. [2]
A Press Announcement was released, dated December 4, 1998 by Congressman Vito Fossella. The announcement stated that Fossella "laid out a compelling argument for deauthorizing the property as part of Gateway National Recreation Area and restoring it as a temporary waste disposal site only for trash generated in Brooklyn". [3]
Bill Farrell, writing for the New York Daily News, summarized the condition of the area during a 2003 article: "The malodorous, toxic and visual nightmare reviled by drivers along the Belt Parkway will soon be transformed into 400 acres (1.6 km²) of parkland along Jamaica Bay." [4]
A February 12, 2004, the New York City Sanitation filed a request to operate a yard waste composting facility. [5]
BergerWorld reported in its 2nd Quarter 2006 report: "Berger, teamed with URS, is assisting the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in the $160 million, 297-acre (1.20 km²) Pennsylvania & Fountain Avenue Landfills (PAFAL) closure project in Brooklyn, NY, one of the largest closures ever undertaken in the state of New York" [6]
The landfill was mentioned in July 10, 2007 as undergoing a $20 million ecological restoration with the Pennsylvania landfill.[7] The area is also under discussion by local government to be considered for more development.[citation needed][8] City Line Park was mentioned as being redesigned and transformed under a $1.5 million renovation launched this day. [9]
Ecological concerns were later expressed for the area on a "New York Habitat Restoration" webpage. [10]
[edit] Reputation
Fountain Avenue has been infamously known as a dumping ground for bodies of the Mob.[11] In the 1930s a group known as Murder Incorporated used the area as a dumping ground for bodies.[12] Later Roy DeMeo disposed of his many victims there before he was murdered and dumped in the same area.[12] The most recent find of a body was that of Imette St. Guillen, who was murdered on February 25, 2006.[12] [13] [14]
[edit] References
- ^ "City Makes Improvements to Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenue Landfills". D.E.P. News (April 2, 1999). Retrieved on 1999-04-02.
- ^ Jamaica Bay Research and Management Information Network (1984-1985). Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
- ^ Fossella Formerly Begins Process to Reopen Fountain Avenue Landfill (December 4, 1998). Retrieved on 1998-12-04.
- ^ Waterfront dump may grow up to be park (July 30, 2003). Retrieved on 2003-07-30.
- ^ [http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/12220.html State Of New York Department Of Environmental Conservation Notice Of Public Hearing] (February 12, 2004). Retrieved on 2004-02-12.
- ^ BergerWorld: 2nd Quarter 2006 Ecological Restoration (May 1, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-05-01.
- ^ A Forest Grows on a Brooklyn Landfill. WNYC (February 7, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
- ^ Spring Creep. The Brooklyn Rail (December, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ Once a Pumping Station Now a Park to Be Renovated. The New York Times (July 10, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
- ^ New York Habitat Restoration (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
- ^ Rashbaum, William (October 6, 2004), Sometimes, Mob Victims Have Plenty of Company, New York Times, <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/nyregion/06mob.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FOrganizations%2FF%2FFederal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation%20>. Retrieved on 15 October 2007
- ^ a b c Kurutz, Steven (March 12, 2006), Student Is the Latest Victim to End Up in Swampland, New York Times, <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/thecity/12murd.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Kurutz,%20Steven&oref=login>. Retrieved on 15 October 2007
- ^ John Jay co-ed found brutally murdered. 7Online.com New York (February 27, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-02-27.
- ^ New York City Gridskipper (February 5, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
[edit] External links
- Fountain Avenue Community Development Corporation
- City Makes Improvements to Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenue Landfills
- PowerPoint Presentation
[edit] Movie and Other references
- Fountain Avenue (2006)
- reference to a different Fountain Avenue by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood
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