{"id":1513,"date":"2006-09-05T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/with_any_luck_itll_be_off_limits_for_years_while_environmental_agencies_conduct_studies_but_the_only_thing_better_would_be_if_it_cost_millions_just_to_clean_up.html"},"modified":"2006-09-05T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T18:32:23","slug":"with_any_luck_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/with_any_luck_i.html","title":{"rendered":"With Any Luck It&#8217;ll Be Off Limits For Years While Environmental Agencies Conduct Studies . . . But The Only Thing Better Would Be If It Cost Millions Just To Clean Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deal that <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Polluted_parkland_in_Yankees_trade\/4298.html\">looks better and better with each passing day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Now that the old-growth trees have been felled and the earth-moving machines have started to dig up Macombs Dam Park, what will the residents surrounding the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium project be left with for replacement parks?<\/p>\n<p>Polluted land, according to city and federal documents.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current stadium are two 15,000-gallon oil tanks, which were found to be leaking, and soil in all of the replacement parkland contains &#8220;semi-volatile compounds and\/or metals at concentrations exceeding [New York State Department of Environmental Conservation] Cleanup Objectives,&#8221; noted National Park Service executive Jack Howard when he signed off on the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s park-swap plan.<\/p>\n<p>Though the contaminated land is cited in this NPS go-ahead as well as the city&#8217;s Final Environmental Impact Statement, it&#8217;s not mentioned in any of the appraisals performed to comply with federal and state laws.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deal that looks better and better with each passing day: Now that the old-growth trees have been felled and the earth-moving machines have started to dig up Macombs Dam Park, what will the residents surrounding the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium project be left with for replacement parks? Polluted land, according to city and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-jerk_move","category-the_bronx","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}