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TUNNEL VISION
Underground tube along canal could replace long-proposed water-storage tanks
TUBE TIME: The city is now considering building an underground tunnel along the Gowanus
Canal instead of installing two water-storage tanks at two separate sites, including below
the headhouse, seen here, that offi cials must build as part of the channel’s cleanse.
Slope subway stabbing
Cops: Woman stabbed at 15th Street station
after refusing attacker’s sexual advances
BY COLIN MIXSON
Authorities are hunting for the villain
who brutally stabbed a woman
at Park Slope’s 15th Street-Prospect
Park subway station early on Tuesday
morning.
The 36-year-old victim told cops
that she, the suspect, and two other
guys were drinking before the slasher
sexually propositioned her and she refused,
leading him to stab her in the
stomach with a kitchen knife at 5:05
am at the station near Bartel Pritchard
Square, according to Police Department
spokeswoman Det. Sophia
Mason.
The men fl ed following the attack,
and fi rst responders transported
the woman, who managed to contact
authorities despite her wound,
to Methodist Hospital in stable
WANTED: Police are searching for this man,
whom they suspect stabbed the woman.
NYPD
condition, Mason said.
Offi cials described the suspect as
approximately 30-years-old, fi ve-feetseven
inches tall, 165 pounds, with
black hair and brown eyes, and said he
was last seen in an orange coat.
BY JULIANNE CUBA
City offi cials may scrap a long in-theworks
plan to bury two massive sewage
tanks beneath Gowanus Canal–adjacent
land — some of which offi cials
recently seized via eminent domain
— and instead construct a giant tunnel
to collect storm-water runoff in
the cisterns’ place, according to Feds
with the Environmental Protection
Agency.
“Recently we’ve had the city approach
us to advance a concept of
replacing a tank with an alternate
structure, a tunnel or series of tunnels,”
agency employee Pete Lopez
told members of the Gowanus Community
Advisory Group at a Nov. 27
meeting. “That’s newly on our desk —
we are trying to understand the pros
and cons of that.”
The plan to install the eight- and
four-million-gallon water-storage
tanks is part of the Superfund site’s
federally led cleanup , and the city
fi rst announced it back in 2013 .
Earlier this year, Council in April
signed off on the use of eminent domain
to seize neighboring Butler and
Nevins street lots along the waterway
as the site for the larger tank and a
fi ltration facility called a headhouse
above it.
And in May, offi cials from the
city’s Department of Environmental
Continued on page 18
Christmas sweaters!
Thousands of festively dressed runners dashed through Prospect Park during the
annual Jingle Bell Jog 5k on Dec. 2. For more revelry from the race, see page 10.
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