Pack the Court House! Stop Developers Poisoning Our Community

Pack the Court House!
Weds. Jan. 21, 26 at 9:30 am
Brooklyn Supreme Court
360 Adams Street,
(Directions: 2,3,4,5, R to Court Street)

We filed a lawsuit to hold accountable the City of New York and the Developers for the poisoning of our air with Asbestos, Lead, Mercury, and PAHs.

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The Dangers of Lead, Mercury, PAHs and Asbestos Poisoning

It had been determined that Lead, Mercury, Asbestos and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons “PAH” were present in a toxic site that was asking for a rezoning.  Below is a brief summary of the dangers of these airborne toxins.

Lead Poisoning

“Even small amounts of lead can cause serious health problems. Children younger than age 6 are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which can severely affect how a child’s body grows and brain develops. At high levels, lead poisoning can be fatal.” “Mayor Clinic”

Mercury Poisoning

Your body will react if you eat, touch or inhale mercury. Once inside your body, mercury travels to your heart, central nervous system and kidneys. The most severe cases of mercury poisoning affect children, and fetuses of pregnant or breastfeeding women. (Cleveland Clinc,

PAH Poisoning 

Chronic exposure to PAHs can result in adverse health outcomes. These include damage to the immune system, cataracts, kidney and liver issues; breathing problems; asthma-like symptoms; and reduced lung function. (National Library of Medicine)

Asbestos Poisoning

Asbestos exposure can lead to serious respiratory disease, including asbestosis and lung cancer. There is no safe level of asbestos exposure, even minimal contact can be harmful.

Drug Dealer Buys Toxic Site

A former Drug Dealer Alex Adjmi, who was pardoned by Trump bought a toxic and contaminated site five years ago that contained Asbestos, Lead, Mercury, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons “PAHs”.

This site 73-99 Empire Blvd. is located right next to the largest residential buildings in the community, including Ebbets Field, Tivoli Towers and three new 17 story luxury towers. It’s across the street from a middle school and its play yard, and the only children’s playground that services all of Crown Heights South. It’s also across the street from the private homes located on the border of Prospect Lefferts Garden and along Sullivan Place in Crown Heights!

To get around doing the necessary environmental clean-up Adjmi simply applied and was accepted into NY State’s Brownfield program, but failed to do the clean-up making the excuse he was waiting for the results of his rezoning application. Adjmi was asking to increase his heights from 1 story to a 14 story residential apartment, in a commercial only restricted area on Empire Blvd, where the majority of the properties are one story.

Instead of the City demanding compliance with their own environmental review laws, they allowed Adjmi’s Brownfield Application, which he had not worked on since 2022, to sidestep all of the documentation and testing that was required for a toxic site.

The City then determined that no negative environmental impact (poisoning of the air) would occur if Adjmi worked the Mayor’s Office of Remediation, “OER” E-806 program.

The City Demands that Developer Must Work With Mayor’s OER After the end of the Rezoning process, the City made the determination that Adjmi’s Brownfield application would not prevent any negative environmental impacts (the exposure of Lead, Mercury, Asbestos and PAH) to the general public who live and work in the community and the site workers. The City made the approval of the rezoning conditional on Adjmi working with Mayor’s Office of Remediation “OER” E-806 Program before any excavation, demolition or construction permits were issued by NYC Dept. of Buildings “DOB”. Proof had to be given to DOB of Adjmi’s compliance with OER.   The Department of Buildings Gives Building Permits Without Developer’s Compliance with the Law! The Mayor’s OER claimed they knew nothing about this agreement and had not worked with Adjmi on his infested toxic site. DOB on the other hand, simply ignored this requirement (possibly with some under the table money).  Adjmi obtained excavation and demolition permits to remove two buildings, one being toxic infested without any environmental conditions or protections to the community regarding the Lead, Mercury and PAH exposures. Thus, both the City and Adjmi’s actions caused the site to be contaminated, an occurrence that the City had claimed would be avoided and was the basis for the Negative Declaration.   Developers Sells Toxic Lot for $27 Million Now Wants Out of the Lawsuit! We filed our lawsuit and obtained a Temporary Restraining Order “TRO” for no more work to be performed at the site and demanding that a full Environmental Impact Statement be done due to the fact that the negative environmental impact did occur! Now is our day in Court! Adjmi is wanting to get off the lawsuit because he sold the site for $27 million after he poisoned our community at the height of the summer. This was when the maximum amount of exposure to the toxic chemicals would occur. The new owners are saying that our Statute of Limitations is up even though the lawsuit was filed within four months. We Have Done Our Part!  Now We Need You!  Help us stand up to a City that makes promises and fails to enforce them. That allows developers to get away with poisoning our air with dangerous toxins infecting the health, and well-being of our children, seniors, pregnant mothers, site workers, and families with toxic waste that has no medical cures and in some cases can lead to permanent impairment or death. We Need Your Financial Support! Please make a donation (see QR-Code below) for this Lawsuit to help with our Expenses). It is only with lawsuits that we can hold the City to the Law and not allow Developers to get away with the poisoning of our community for profit!