BRIGHTON BEACH: Developers announce they won’t dig up toxic dirt, citing community concerns

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThey want to clear the air.
Developers bowed to community pressure in Brighton Beach and announced they won’t dig up a cache of toxic chemicals while building a 40-story tower atop the Trump Village Shopping Center. Cammeby’s International is asking the state to let it put up the condos without first cleaning up hazardous materials left more than a dozen feet underground by a gas-manufacturing plant that once operated