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National Grid Halts Brooklyn Pipeline Over COVID-19 Pandemic

National Grid workers had been working 'in close proximity to each other' for a week after non-essential workers were ordered home

National Grid Halts Brooklyn Pipeline Over COVID-19 Pandemic

National Grid Halts Brooklyn Pipeline Over COVID-19 Pandemic

National Grid workers had been working 'in close proximity to each other' for a week after non-essential workers were ordered home

National Grid Halts Brooklyn Pipeline Over COVID-19 Pandemic

Construction finally shuddered to a halt late Thursday on the final leg of National Grid’s pipeline project in North Brooklyn. The city’s thirst for building, building, building had kept construction workers of all stripes among the few professions not sent home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic but that no longer appears to be the case at the site of a project that has drawn the increased ire of local residents in recent months. 

The shut down came only a day before Gov…

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