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"For decades, residents of a neighborhood that straddles the border of Brooklyn
and Queens have dealt with the unique effects of living in a basin: swampy
flooding, bumpy streets, overgrown lots strewn with trash and leaky septic
tanks — because homes are not connected to the city sewer system.
With roads named for Amber, Sapphire, Ruby and Emerald, what some locals call
the Jewel Streets area may be better known as The Hole. It’s a neighborhood
unlike any other.
And it is now unique in another way: It’s becoming the first place in the five
boroughs where the New York City government will offer to buy flood-prone homes
from homeowners — proactively, instead of in response to a disaster.
The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice on Friday will begin
collecting information from homeowners possibly interested in the city
purchasing their property, including one- to four-unit homes and vacant lots.
For some locals, the possibility of selling their homes and no longer dealing
with the conditions in the neighborhood comes as a relief.
“I’ve had enough,” said Bart Aclin, a retired Fire Department inspector who has
owned his home there for nearly 25 years. “I’d rather just sell the property,
if they give us fair market value, what they claim the property is worth. We’ll
see.”"
Via
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Cheers,
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