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fuel tanks at 60 Hudson draw community concerns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Jul 11 11:24:50 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:24:19 -0400
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/nyregion/11fuel.html?
Building's Extra Fuel Tanks Raise Concerns in TriBeCa
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: July 11, 2005
Saying that a dangerous amount of diesel fuel is stored in a 25-story building in TriBeCa, elected officials and residents called on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday to rescind a variance that permits its storage.
The fuel, they warned, could lead to a major fire if there were a terrorist attack or other disaster.
The city's Department of Buildings granted a variance to the owners of the tower at 60 Hudson Street late last month, allowing the owners to store 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel, much of it below - but some actually in - the building.
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--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
