Elected Officials and Community Board Convene Working Group On 250 Water Street Environmental Cleanup and Construction Impacts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2021

Contact: Stanley Davis; daviss@nysenate.gov; 646-838-2949 (Sen. Kavanagh)

New York, NY — State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Borough President-elect Mark Levine, Councilmember Margaret Chin, Councilmember-elect Christopher Marte, and Manhattan Community Board 1 are convening a working group on the environmental cleanup and construction proposed for 250 Water Street in Manhattan. The Working Group will meet regularly to ensure transparency, public awareness, community input, and environmental safety, and to minimize negative impacts on the quality of life in the area, of any environmental remediation and construction work at the site. 

In addition to the elected officials and the Community Board, the Working Group will include representatives of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Howard Hughes Corporation, Langan Environmental, independent community monitor Lawra Dodge of Excel Environmental Resources, Tom Fusillo of the Ramboll Group, the Peck Slip School, the Blue School, the groups that comprise the Seaport Coalition (Southbridge Towers, Save Our Seaport, Children First, and Friends of the South Street Seaport), and the South Street Seaport Museum; all of these organizations have agreed to participate. Other public agencies and community stakeholders will be invited to join.