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A Greenpoint building is becoming six-story apartments. First, 355 tons of contaminated soil have to go

A three-story building at 1098 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint will be redeveloped into a six-story residential building after 355 tons of contaminated soil are removed under NYC's Voluntary Cleanup Program.

Three-story tan brick corner building in Greenpoint with green storefront, air conditioners, and street corner view
A three-story mixed-use brick building in Greenpoint, similar to the one at 1098 Manhattan Avenue slated for redevelopment after soil remediation. Bushwick Daily image

A Greenpoint building is becoming six-story apartments. First, 355 tons of contaminated soil have to go

A three-story building at 1098 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint will be redeveloped into a six-story residential building after 355 tons of contaminated soil are removed under NYC's Voluntary Cleanup Program.

A Greenpoint building is becoming six-story apartments. First, 355 tons of contaminated soil have to go

The three-story building at 1098 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint is slated to become a six-story apartment building, and before that happens the developer plans to dig out and truck away roughly 355 tons of contaminated soil. That’s according to a city Voluntary Cleanup Program fact sheet issued July 10 by the New York City Office of Environmental Remediation, the agency that supervises cleanups of low- to mid-level polluted land it calls “brownfields.”

The owner, an entity called 1098 Manhattan Avenue, LLC, has applied to enroll the property in the program, which is voluntary but…

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