Geographic Distribution of New York State Brownfield Sites
--By Region, County, and Assembly District

Region Counties Locality (Assembly Districts) Brownfields Status

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 inventory31 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]

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]

 

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]

 

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]

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]

 

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]

Yonkersthe 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]

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]

 

Southern Tier

Steuben, Yates, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Cortland, Tioga

(Chemung)

 

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]

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}

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 County475 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]

 

 

Source: M = U.S. Conf. of Mayors Report (2000); Note: the tabulations provided in this survey were based mostly on estimates rather than detailed inventories.

  E = EPA Brownfields Pilot Program data (2003).

                  D = NYS DEC (as of 3/2001); Note: Most brownfield sites have not been tabulated by DEC.

                  P  = Broome County Planning Dept. Inventory (2003)

See also: http://www.ny-brownfields.com/BF_Demographics.htm 

                   http://www.ny-brownfields.com/BF_REL_LIT.htm

Key: VCP sites = privately-owned Voluntary Cleanup Program Sites

         BF sites = municipally-owned Brownfield sites accepted for funding under the 1996 Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act