Fountain Avenue (Brooklyn)

Fountain Avenue, is a north / south street in Brooklyn, New York. Its north end is at Atlantic Avenue near Conduit Avenue.

The south end is a site off the Belt Parkway, specifically named "Exit 15 Erskine Street". The area is mostly composed of landfill and has areas of swampland-like forest growth where improvements are contemplated.[1]

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South end

Various tests of the Fountain Avenue area and landfills were conducted in 1985 and 1986.[2]

A December 4, 1998 press announcement by Congressman Vito Fossella stated that Fossella "laid out a compelling argument for deauthorizing the property as part of Gateway National Recreation Area and restoring it as a temporary waste disposal site only for trash generated in Brooklyn".[3]

Bill Farrell, writing for the New York Daily News, summarized the condition of the area during a 2003 article: "The malodorous, toxic and visual nightmare reviled by drivers along the Belt Parkway will soon be transformed into 400 acres (1.6 km2) of parkland along Jamaica Bay."[4]

On February 12, 2004, New York City Sanitation filed a request to operate a yard waste composting facility.[5] The application was completed on March 2006.[6]

BergerWorld reported in its 2nd Quarter 2006 report: "Berger, teamed with URS, is assisting the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in the $160 million, 297-acre (1.20 km2) Pennsylvania & Fountain Avenue Landfills (PAFAL) closure project in Brooklyn, NY, one of the largest closures ever undertaken in the state of New York"[7]

The landfill was mentioned on July 10, 2007 as undergoing a $20 million ecological restoration with the Pennsylvania landfill.[8] The area is also under discussion by local government to be considered for more development.[9] City Line Park was mentioned as being redesigned and transformed under a $1.5 million renovation launched this day.[10]

Ecological concerns were later expressed for the area on a "New York Habitat Restoration" webpage.[11]

Fountain Avenue has been infamous as a dumping ground for bodies of the Mob.[12] In the 1930s a group known as Murder Incorporated used the area as a dumping ground for bodies.[13] Later the DeMeo crew disposed of many victims there.[13] The most recent find of a body was that of Imette St. Guillen, who was murdered on February 25, 2006.[13][14][15]

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References

  1. ^ "City Makes Improvements to Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenue Landfills". D.E.P. News. April 2, 1999. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/99-19pr.shtml. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
  2. ^ "Jamaica Bay Research and Management Information Network". 1984-1985. http://nbii-nin.ciesin.columbia.edu/jamaicabay/stakeholder/city_dos.html. Retrieved 2007-10-25. 
  3. ^ "Fossella Formerly Begins Process to Reopen Fountain Avenue Landfill". December 4, 1998. Archived from the original on 1999-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/19991009174319/http://www.house.gov/fossella/Fountave.html. Retrieved 1998-12-04. 
  4. ^ "Waterfront dump may grow up to be park". July 30, 2003. http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3112. Retrieved 2003-07-30. 
  5. ^ "State Of New York Department Of Environmental Conservation Notice Of Public Hearing". February 12, 2004. http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/12220.html. Retrieved 2004-02-12. 
  6. ^ "ENB Region 2 Completed Applications 03/22/2006 Kings County". New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb2006/20060322/Reg2.html. Retrieved 2008-12-16. 
  7. ^ "BergerWorld: 2nd Quarter 2006 Ecological Restoration". May 1, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-10-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20061022230426/http://louisberger.com/berger/world/2006q2/pfal.php. Retrieved 2006-05-01. 
  8. ^ "A Forest Grows on a Brooklyn Landfill". WNYC. February 7, 2007. http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/73332. Retrieved 2007-10-15. 
  9. ^ "Spring Creep". The Brooklyn Rail. December, 2006. http://brooklynrail.org/2006/12/local/spring-creep/. Retrieved 2006-12-01. 
  10. ^ Chan, Sewell (July 10, 2007). "Once a Pumping Station Now a Park to Be Renovated". The New York Times. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/once-a-pumping-station-now-a-park-to-be-renovated/. Retrieved 2007-07-10. 
  11. ^ "New York Habitat Restoration". 2007. http://www.newyorknature.net/Restoration.html. Retrieved 2007-10-26. 
  12. ^ Rashbaum, William (October 6, 2004), Sometimes, Mob Victims Have Plenty of Company, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/nyregion/06mob.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FOrganizations%2FF%2FFederal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation%20, retrieved 2007-10-15 
  13. ^ a b c Kurutz, Steven (March 12, 2006), Student Is the Latest Victim to End Up in Swampland, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/thecity/12murd.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Kurutz,%20Steven&oref=login, retrieved 2007-10-15 
  14. ^ Kurutz, Steven (February 27, 2006). "John Jay co-ed found brutally murdered". 7Online.com New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/thecity/12murd.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Kurutz,%20Steven&oref=login. Retrieved 2006-02-27. 
  15. ^ "New York City Gridskipper". February 5, 2007. http://gridskipper.com/travel/new-york/infamous-new-york-murders-231665.php#top. Retrieved 2007-10-25. 

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Major streets of Brooklyn