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Red Hook Ballfields Reopening Plan Faces Long Wait
Since 2012 NYC Parks closed fields 5 8 over lead concerns from a former smelting site at Lorain and Hicks. EPA oversight now outlines reconstruction with raised fields and artificial turf. completion expected by 2023 at earliest, with other fields to follow after extended remediation.
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Red Hook
NYC Parks Department
Columbia Smelting and Refining Works
Lorraine and
Hicks Street
NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Red Hook Rec Center
Parks Department
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Brooklyn
Marty Maher