Yesterday a team of contractors hired by National Grid were doing a 6-foot-deep test dig into the soil underneath Thomas Greene Park in Gowanus. The diggers are investigating how much toxic material exists underneath the public space, which also goes by “Double D Park.” National Grid is looking into how polluted the area once occupied by a manufactured gas plant is. The next step at Thomas Greene, which is on 3rd Avenue between Douglass and Degraw, involves digging down around 60 feet under the park to collect soil samples, according to one of the workers there yesterday. Some locals want to make the playground a skate park. In the meantime, Double D’s pool is scheduled to open for the season in July.
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