The East 50’s Neighborhood Coalition has filed for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Environmental Protection’s planned Shaft 33B, at 59th Street and First Avenue, which would connect
The coalition contends that an alternate site between 55th and 56th streets on Third Avenue would be a better location for the shaft as it is directly over the
The coalition contends that:
alternative sites, even if that would require use of its eminent domain
powers.
*Four years of continuous
significant environmental impacts
*Neighborhood residents and businesses will suffer irreparable injury
if construction of Shaft 33B commences
The coalition has been battling the D.E.P. over this issue since late last year; the D.E.P. originally wanted to get started on the excavation next spring, with a completing date sometime by 2010. Construction of the connecting
-Matthew Grace
