The state has $19.5 million to spend cleaning up Greenpoint — and that money could turn your far out environmental idea into an eco-friendly reality.
Exxon Mobil settled with the state in November 2010 for letting more than 17 million gallons of oil seep under Greenpoint for over a century.
Over the next year, environmental experts will determine how to spend that clean-up cash, but they need your help coming up with possible projects.
Some North Brooklynites have already shared their proposals at a public workshop last Wednesday, and we’ve complied a few of the most creative suggestions.
Illustrations by Sylvan Migdal.
Reach reporter Aaron Short at ashort@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2547.
Another Brooklyn resident wants the money to go towards hiring a park ranger to patrol Greenpoint’s green spaces — a job that shouldn’t be too hard to fill considering that many of the neighborhood’s fashionistas already dress like woodsmen.
Another proposed building a wind turbine on Newtown Creek — an idea that wouldn’t just produce green energy, but could help blow the foul stench emanating from the putrid sludgeway and the nearby wastewater treatment plant toward Long Island City.
