Two Bridges residents call on developers, city to protect them from toxic towers site
Originally published in
The Village Sun
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | In a few months time construction is set to start on two 73-story residential towers in the Two Bridges neighborhood of the Lower East Side.
But before the hotly contested 75-percent luxury residential buildings can rise at 261 South St. — right between two low-income Section 8 apartment buildings known as Lands End — the construction site needs to be remediated.
Similar to the construction site at 250 Water St. in the Seaport District, which was once the world’s largest thermometer factory, the Two Bridges site is “toxic,” once home to a gas station.
