[CPEO-BIF] "NYC musicians hire private lab to test for toxic Gowanus Canal vapors after landlord’s silent treatment"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NYC musicians hire private lab to test for toxic Gowanus Canal vapors after landlord’s silent treatment

By Nicole Rosenthal
New York Post
May 15, 2025

These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.

Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.

The space — which has been the rehearsal home over the years to the likes of TV On the Radio, Coheed and Cambria and The Blue Man Group — sits just blocks away from sites that have tested positive for high levels of cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE).

But the management company that operates the facility says that landlord Anthony Borruso hasn’t been “amenable” to requests for free testing being offered by the state.

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For the entire article, see
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/us-news/bk-musicians-hire-private-lab-to-test-for-toxic-gowanus-canal-vapors-after-landlord-gives-silent-treatment-this-could-kill-me/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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