A blog called Fifty Car Pileup has a bone to pick with Christie’s operations on Imlay Street, or, more specifically, the auction house’s use of a generator outside its Red Hook warehouse. The site says the generator has a permit outside it to run an hour a day but says, in fact, that it runs “constantly,” creating a racket and, according to the permit, “running through 39.3 gallons of diesel fuel an hour..as if 40 semi trucks were constantly idling on our block.” (In point of fact, the permit specifies that it will be used one hour a day “on average.”) The generator was indeed running when we checked in on it in mid-afternoon late last week.
Christie’s Use of Diesel Generator in Red Hook Stinks [Fifty Car Pileup] GMAP