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"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
the highest form of humor: PUNZ
For a time, the dust seemed to be everywhere, from the insides of downtown apartments to the very air that New Yorkers breathed. It is suspected of causing respiratory problems and may have long-term effects on health.
Most of the dust was swept up long ago, but small amounts of it doubtless remain, tucked in nooks and corners. Federal environmental officials had planned to test living and working places in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn this year to make sure they are not still contaminated.
But the project has been stalled in part because even though the dust was seen, smelled or inhaled by millions of New Yorkers four years ago, there is no consensus about how to identify it today.
Lincoln Park West [Jersey City] is an area badly in need of tidying up, said Fred Mumford, a spokesman for the DEP. Mumford explained that the wetlands on the edge of the park were used for decades as a dumping site for solid, liquid and hazardous waste. Invasive plants ran rampant in the wetlands, smothering natural growth and the water, he said.
In addition, the wildlife and plants in the 31-acre marsh have been contaminated by several oil spills in Newark Bay, such as the Exxon Bayway spill in the Kill Van Kull in 1990, which released 567,000 gallons of oil into Newark Bay and into the marshes.
Some $500,000 in remediation money from that and other polluters that went into the New Jersey Responsible Polluters fund provided the initial funding to clean up the wetlands.
While the Lincoln Park clean-up is still in its early stages - design drafts have just been drawn and Jersey City will seek bids for a contractor early next year - the plans are ambitious.
"We will be flushing tidal water into the creek system and building new tidal channels," said Carl Alderman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is assisting with the clean-up. "We will be rebuilding a wetlands site that had previously been used as a landfill . removing landfill debris, planting salt grass."
Hudson County also has plans to revitalize the PJB landfill at the edge of Lincoln Park.
asymptote (click to launch pop-up - like thats a good thing?)
Is the LMDC Getting the Boot?\\via TBTM
The NY Times article regarding Tom Bernstein’s resignation seems to suggest that something may be in the works regarding the LMDC’s role in decision making for the memorial quadrant.
calling it what it isnt :
The Center would have addressed slavery and other human rights issues not directly related to the craven attacks on the World Trade Center. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov had a word for the kind of political correctness behind the center: poshlost, a Russian term meaning fashionable, Philistine, clichéd, bogus nonsense. The instance he gave in the late 1940s, in which Philistinism tumbled over the edge into evil, was: “We all share in Germany’s guilt.” The subtext at the Center was: “We all share in radical Islam’s guilt. They killed many Americans, but we had slaves; there was genocide in Western Europe; whose hands are that clean, anyway?”
75 years in the ghost busters building on cpw
via nym real estate section
schnabel towers
two young golden rain trees after about eleven months in JC soil