Source: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/, August 13, 2020
By: Kevin Duggan

A developer wants to cleanse heavily-polluted soil and groundwater at 34 Berry St. in Williamsburg through the state-subsidized Brownfield Cleanup Program — a decade after building a luxury complex and renting apartments to hundreds of tenants on top of the toxic grounds.

Manhattan landlord company Lcor in 2017 applied with the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to remove toxic chemicals known as chlorinated solvents and petroleum from beneath its seven-story building at the corner of N. 12th Street, even though the building had already been occupied by tenants since 2009. Read more.