Hey, Bloomberg: Keep Your Message Clear

There is fetid, putrid, contaminant-infested water body that surely needs some extensive cleanup, due to it's industrial past. However, this one isn't in an area that has high real estate value, or mega-developers bearing down on it, or high-paid lobbyists opposing it, so Mayor Bloomberg has decided to go along for the ride! From the Brooklyn Paper:

"The Bloomberg Administration has quietly backed a federal effort to list North Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek as a toxic Superfund site — though the city continues to fight the very same classification for the Gowanus Canal.

On Dec. 23, the city submitted its testimony in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Newtown Creek Superfund bid, citing the waterway’s pollution. Yet at the Gowanus Canal, which is similarly befouled yet is ripe for luxury development along its banks, the city is still moving forward with its own clean-up.

“They are different situations and we evaluate each one independently,” said Marc La Vorgna, a mayoral spokesperson. “Each situation is not the same.”

The pollution in both waterways certainly is. The main difference is that the city, with the help of developers like Toll Brothers, is hoping to turn the rundown manufacturing zone around the Gowanus Canal into a residential, commercial and manufacturing area with thousands of luxury units and $400 million in private investment."

Mayor Bloomberg, this rouse is very easy to see through. Don't disappoint us again keep on disappointing us.