Triangle Smell Follow-up

In our current issue we wrote about a meeting last week that took place at the offices of the Triangle roofing company. For almost two years, Triangle has been burning hot tar in their building at 36 Coffey Street. The tar is used for roofing jobs, and the heating takes place in two special trucks. The putrid smell has been harmful to local neighbors, including patrons of Rocky Sullivans. At the meeting, attended by our local government representatives and members of the community, Triangle finally agreed to address the issue.

There was a second meeting last night, and courtesy of Mark Chin, one of the community representatives, here is the result of that second meeting:

Just a quick update on last night’s follow up meeting.

Attendees: Ortiz’s rep, Menchaca’s rep, CB6 Rep, SBDIC rep, Jim Tampakis, John McGettrick, Lou Sones, John Battis and myself (besides the Triangle people).

Basically we were promised that they will have found a place by next Monday to which they are going to move the trucks.

Florin Krasniqi (Triangle owner) said he was open to any site in the 5 boroughs (!), also that he had contacted sites in New Jersey but that they were not ideal.

SBDIC rep brought a list of 12 possible sites they had found, many of them related to the EDC.

The strong message was that they have finally got the message and are now moving as fast as they can to secure a site for the trucks.

Obviously these are not the most trustworthy counterparties, but it was everyone’s opinion after the meeting that they will definitely be moving the trucks on a permanent basis, and that it will happen very soon – how soon is hard to say but Florin said he would have it solved within the week.

I will keep you updated, probably with an email next Monday unless we hear earlier that they have solved the problem.

Mark