Christie's Generating Some Anger in Red Hook
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…
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
This is why we need to rezone for more residential zoning and end the idiotic thinking that red hook is still a manufacturing neighbor hood if you don’t live in red hook worry about your neighbor hood not ours let’s push for more families and less trucks
update – new photo and link to health studies:
Christie’s Diesel Generator Endangering the Health of Red Hook Families
http://fiftycarpileup.blogspot.com/2011/05/christies-diesel-generator-endagering.html
Go get ’em. If Red Hook can get cruise ships to plug into the grid instead of idling fumes on the harbor, they should be able to get Christie’s in line too.
24 hours is definitely a little different than an average of 1 hour a day!
They need climate control but one would think they would rely on ConEd for their main source of power. Either there isn’t enough coming in, or maybe diesel is cheaper than the electricity.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I would imagine the building would not need massive amounts of fuel and energy if it could somehow be Passivhaus-ized.
I imagine that’s an investment they haven’t considered. Maybe over the long-haul it would be a lot smarter!
There’s no other way to protect fake wine and fake art than diesel fuel.
Are these the same people who fought the residential development to keep the space for manufacturing? worse than trucks delivery to the docks?