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Geographic Distribution
of New York State Brownfield Sites
--By Region, County, and Assembly District
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Region |
Counties |
Locality (Assembly Districts) |
Brownfields Status |
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Western |
Erie, Niagara
(Chautauqua) |
N.
Tonawanda, Kenmore, Niagara Falls, W. Seneca
(##140, 138, 142)
Jamestown, Dunkirk |
N. Tonawanda: 6 sites, 100 acres
[M]
Buffalo: 90 sites,
2,000 acres [M]; >60 CERCLIS sites and >20 sites on NYS Registry
[E]
Erie County: VCP sites = 6; BF
sites = 7 [D]
Niagara County: VCP sites = ?; BF
sites = 5 [D]
Niagara County: >70 hazardous
substance sites, including 35 CERCLA sites; >720 BF sites in county
inventory; 31 sites identified with strong reuse
potential [E]
Chautauqua County: EPA Pilot
program locality; focus on Jamestown and Dunkirk.
Lackawanna: EPA BF pilot; 3 sites
being focused on. [E]
Niagara Falls: 17 former
industrial sites on 386 acres; vacant land and blighted
properties are being made available for redevelopment along
Buffalo
Ave. corridor [E] |
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Finger Lakes |
Monroe, Livingston,
Ontario |
Rochester, Irondequoit, Fairport, Henrietta
(##132, 133, 135, 130) |
Rochester: 12 sites, 50
acres [M]
Rochester: under EPA
pilot grant, 4 sites (of at least 12 priority sites) totaling 42
acres are being returned to productive use and bringing at least 100
new jobs to the area [E}
Monroe County: VCP sites = 18; BF
sites = 5 [D]
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New York
City |
Kings, Queens |
Brooklyn, Jamaica
(##153, 32, 35, 51) |
New York
City: 6,000 sites, 4,000 acres [M]
New York
City: at least 4,000 acres of vacant industrial land, mostly along
waterfront [E]
New York
City: VCP sites = 40; BF sites = 16 [D]
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Long Island |
Nassau,
Suffolk |
Hempstead, Babylon, Lindhurst, Bethpage, Massapequa, Farmingdale
(##18, 11, 12) |
Glen Cove: 30 sites, 146 acres
[M]; >70 acres of BFs, Plus 1.1 mile industrialized Fed. Navigation
channel—EPA pilot community; Waterfront Revitalization Plan will
redevelop 214 acres, including 146 acres of BFs; will generate
approximately $200 million in annual sales and $10 million in taxes,
and will create more than 1,700 new full-time jobs [E]
Long Island: VCP sites = 26; BF
sites = 7 [D]
N. Hempstead: at least 17 BFs
comprising 170-acre area in the Hamlet of New Cassel [E] |
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Mohawk Valley |
Oneida |
Rome,
Utica
(#116) |
Rome: 1 site; 200 acres [M]
Rome: EPA pilot grant focused on a
17-acre BF in a 200-acre industrial area; objective: to
redevelop industrial area into a light industrial park. Results:
leveraged >$4 million in assessment, cleanup and redevelopment funding
and may lead to as many as 300 new jobs [E]
Utica: 15 sites; 23 acres [M]
Utica: In past 2 yrs., 300
abandoned structures have been demolished and 250 of these
sites have been marketed for redevelopment. Pilot focused on 4
sites and on redevelopment of the
Broad Street Corridor as
part of the City’s new “Gateway
Plan.” [E]
Oneida County: VCP sites = 2; BF
sites =6 [D]
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Mid-Hudson |
Dutchess, Ulster
(Rockland) |
Kingston, Poughkeepsie,
Newburgh, New Paltz, Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, New
Rochelle, Scarsdale, Peekskill
(#101) |
Mt. Vernon: 15 sites; 150 acres
[M]
Dutchess County: VCP sites = 5; BF
sites = 5 [D]
Ulster County: VCP sites = 3; BF
sites = ? [D]
Ulster County: EPA BF pilot formed
a regional public/private partnership (the Mid-Hudson Valley
Brownfields Partnership), which identified 172 potential
BF sites
and conducted 86 Phase I assessments [E]
Haverstraw: EPA pilot is focusing
on 3 sites totaling 55 Acres; to be revitalized into public esplanade
along Hudson River [E]
Yonkers: the city has
virtually no land for industrial and commercial expansion, and must
clean up and redevelop brownfields to create new jobs; EPA BF
pilot targets a 22-acre cluster of 11 mostly vacant industrial
sites in the Alexander Street Waterfront area [E] |
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Central |
Onondaga,
Oswego, Cayuga |
Syracuse, Auburn
(##120, 122, 123) |
Onondaga County: VCP sites = 9; BF
sites = 9 [D]
Oswego County: VCP sites = 18; BF
sites = ? [D]
City of Salamanca (Seneca Nation):
EPA BF pilot is
targeting a long and narrow 100-acre
rail yard [E]
City of
Syracuse:
EPA BF pilot targets 2 BFs in the
Southern Creekwalk Zone (planned
multi-use
recreational trail system), a 3.5-mile
corridor along Onondaga Creek [E]
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Southern Tier |
Steuben, Yates, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Cortland,
Tioga
(Chemung)
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Bath,
Corning, Binghamton
(##136, 107, 123)
Elmira |
Binghamton: 4 sites; 17 acres [M]
Broome County: 81+ brownfields
[P]
Steuben County: VCP sites = 3; BF
sites = ? [D]
Broome County: VCP sites = 11; BF
sites = ? [D]
Chenango County: VCP sites = 1; BF
sites = ? [D]
Delaware County: VCP sites = 1; BF
sites = ? [D]
Elmira: 50 acres of
contaminated former industrial
sites; 8 selected for EPA pilot [E] |
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North Country/
Central |
Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence |
Gouverneur
(#122)
Ogdensburg,
Watertown |
Jefferson County: VCP sites = 10;
BF sites= 1 [D]
Lewis County: VCP sites = 1; BF
sites = 1 [D]
St. Lawrence County: VCP sites =
8; BF sites = ? [D]
Ogendsburg: 3 waterfront BF
sites comprising ~65 acres
make up about 1/3 of its developable
land [E]
Watertown: EPA pilot focuses on
the Black-Clawson site
which serves as a gateway to the
City’s commercial
center [E} |
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Capital |
Albany,
Columbia, Greene, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren,
Washington
(Fulton) |
Albany, Schenectady, Colonie, Glens Falls |
Albany: 30 sites; 50
acres [M]
Schenectady: 20 sites; 30 acres
[M]
Schenectady: City has acquired
>250 potential BF properties
through tax foreclosures [E]
Albany
County: 475 acres in the Village of Green Island, the Town
of Colonie, and the City of Cohoes have known or suspected
contamination. [E]
City of
Albany:
has a limited supply of uncontaminated, developable land and 300 to
500 brownfields [E]
Glens Falls: an EPA Pilot
community [E]
Johnstown: EPA Pilot is focusing
on Karg Bros. Tannery (10 acres) [E] |
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