[Photo by dwg]
Several readers have wondered what has been going on at the former Mary Help of Christians lot off of Avenue A between East 11th Street and East 12th Street ... currently enjoying the afterlife as a trash dump and graffiti canvas.
There has been some activity at the site of late ... a few dump trucks and mounds of dirt...
Not sure what the workers are doing. (Making a course for area children to snow tube and sled this winter?)
Developer Douglas Steiner is still waiting on city approval for his retail-residential complex. The city last disapproved plans here in June, according to DOB records.
During the summer of 2013, workers demolished the church, school and rectory. As for the new 438 E. 12th St., there will be 158 residential units… and maybe a rooftop pool.
Bottom two photos by Bobby Williams
Previously on EV Grieve:
New residential complex at former Mary Help of Christians lot may include rooftop swimming pool
Meet your new neighbor on Avenue A
Permits filed to demolish Mary Help of Christians church, school and rectory
Preservationists call for archeological review of former cemetery at Mary Help of Christians site
The 'senseless shocking self-destruction' of Mary Help of Christians
Yesterday there was a flyer on the glass wall of the westbound bus stop on 11th, which said simply "The M14A bus does not stop here", and gave a number to call for more info. I called the number (where no one answer); today the flyers are down but I wonder if this is a portent of things to come once work starts in earnest.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone has any connections in the soil testing or ecology areas, you need to get the fill tested. Earlier this year it was discovered that an athletic complex on Long Island was the recipient of several hundred truck loads of fill that contained all kinds of toxins, random trash and asbestos. The town was supposed to be monitoring this but apparently some local politicians allowed a contributor to dump his toxic waste in the park as part of a program to expand the athletic fields. Remediation of toxic soil is expensive and unscrupulous folks will have no problem with disposing of it in this manner.
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