City to start building Bensonhurst trash plant
Colton says ‘fight isn’t over!’
In a move that has set off alarm bells all over Southwest Brooklyn, the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) sent a letter to elected officials informing them that construction of a controversial trash plant is about to begin on the Bensonhurst waterfront.
The Southwest Brooklyn Marine Transfer Station will be located at 400 Bay 41st St., on the waterfront at Gravesend Bay. The site currently houses a city incinerator that stopped operating in the 1990s. The incinerator will have to be torn down to make room for the new facility. The plant has been in the planning stages since it was first announced as part of the city’s Solid Waste Management Plan in 2005.
In a letter dated Dec. 2, DDC informed elected officials that “construction activities, including demolition, will begin in early December, 2014.”