Monday, May 5, 2014

King Fuels demo site shut down (UPDATED)

File photo of King Fuels demo

Once, a while back, I was helping a friend build some step in front of his Center Square house. We got a late start and work was slowed by the onset of darkness and the more than a few beers.
It was getting to be around 10 p.m. or and I (we) was almost done and the remnants of a day’s work – the old steps, some new boards and the left over scraps from the boards I used - were scattered about his courtyard. I was bent over the steps with tool belt on and hammer in hand and a police officer knocked on the gate.
“We got a couple calls about someone in the area sawing and pounding” he said in a pleasant enough manner.
I stood up, hammer in hand and said: “It wasn’t me.”
I thought of that story when I first heard about the latest controversy at the demolition site at King Fuels.
Sources tell me one of the excavators had some concerns about what was going on down there, called the authorities and low and behold – they found asbestos scattered about the site. Work was stopped while authorities figure out how much is there and what to do about it. Now state and federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the matter.
Some of the buildings that were getting knocked down or have been knocked down did have asbestos in them, according tothe minutes of the Troy Local Development Corporation. The city, however, claims it wasn’t from the demolition but someone else could have dumped it down there.
I took a ride down there, after I posted about the site getting shut down, and while I don’t doubt someone could have dumped asbestos or anything else down there but the more likely deduction is that it came from the guy doing work down there. Just like it was the guy in the tool belt holding a hammer who was making all sorts of construction racket keeping the neighbors up.
J.R. Casale is the contractor and I covered the infamous Water District No. 14 in North Greenbush a while back. There were a number of complaints regarding the quality of his work – fire hydrants sticking up two feet out of the ground, driveways and front lawns that were supposed to be repaired were left chewed up or repaired halfway and staggering cost overruns.
Knowing that about Casale – yes, he claims it’s his son’s company but Jack Cox Sr. once said his junkyard in Grafton was owned by his daughter too – I can see him not following the strict rules governing the demolition of asbestos laden structures.
But, according to the city it’s not his fault.
And it wasn’t me who was doing the sawing and nailing. After I told the police officer as such, he laughed, asked how many cuts I had left and said to finish up as quickly as I could. I complied too the best of my ability.
The King Fuels, however, is not a courtyard in Center Square and illegally disposing of asbestos is a far cry from keeping a neighbor awake past 10 p.m.

 

61 comments:

  1. The dire wolf should have the answers. How how how dire wolf

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    1. He is the fall man for the admin

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  2. Another one bites the dust

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  3. Bill Dunne is always right. It's the rest of the world that is wrong all the time.

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  4. Planted by Russ Reeves

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    1. Did barb help. Will dire wolf confront him at his pawling ave mansion?

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    2. Mansion? Really? Try again...It's a home...

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  5. Listen up, idiots. It's PRIVATE property. It's PRIVATE rubble. High pressure gas lines are PRIVATE. It's PRIVATE asbestos. Any explosions on site are PRIVATE. Back off. I run this city and I'll waddle around in flip flops anywhere I want.

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    1. His picture is priceless with the flip flops and the dogs who just licked the peanut butter from his toes. I ask him to not do it all the time. He still does

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  6. According to Bill Dunne a protective coating of Chapstick will fix that right up

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  7. Anyone know a good Filipino lawyer?

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  8. FBI had 3 questions for kreshnick. What is a dire wolf. Whats the obsession with greatful dead and how do you live in east greenbush with a residency requirement for troy. They may also ask why the park was so poorly designed built and over budget Trees anyone. Bob Ross is offended

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  9. Kreshnick proudly tells everyone in city hall he was interviewed by Johnson and Johnson. Even showed some their business cards Was a tough day for the dire wolf

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  10. Kreshnick. Bob Ross wants trees in the park. Why does it look like bedrock where Fred and Barney live. Such a travesty. Nothing to be proud of. Would never fly in east greenbush

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  11. A poem. Dire wolf dire wolf bill dunnes man. Builds city park as shitty as he can. When the FBI calls him in. Tosses everyone in just to save his skin

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    1. Catchy to the tune of patty cake I may add

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    2. Billycake Billycake Tom Wade's man
      Stay on the take as much as you can
      Spin it and hide it and say no to a plea
      To hell with the laws, you're the TLDC

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  12. I saw the shadowy figure of a pear shaped man running through South Troy in flip flops with buckets of rubble

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  13. Lou suspend this kreshnick and dunne. They are obviously clueless

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  14. How many times has the park been redone and there will never be a memorial for the Armenian

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  15. Speaking of Bedrock and the park these morons spent every dime the City had for there own agendas.
    The hell with the roads and infrastructure just patch up the pot holes as cheep as possible.
    All these morons with there bloated pay checks and bloated pensions just raise taxes for the working class.
    The Politicians win win win win win win
    The Tax payers loose loose loose loose

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  16. When Casale was doing the North Greenbush work, he put Germano on his payroll. Yes, the same Germano arrested for soliciting sex from a child.
    It was probably as innocent though as Abbruzzeze putting Bruno on his payroll.

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  17. All of these things that are happening show that you need a degree of professionalism in charge of serious projects like the demolition of an industrial site. Political BS has no place circumventing legal and OSHA Safe procedures. There are reasons why the government regulates hazardous work and materials. There is no place in any of this for some political operative without the proper skill set running the project.

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    1. Where is the video of the guy running for his life from the collapsing building?

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    2. Russ used photoshop.

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    3. It was Mirch.

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  18. Dire wolf goes down. Goes down like timber

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  19. Pathetic. Seriously.

    People's health and safety at risk and for what? A few kickbacks in their pockets? That disgusts me!

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  20. It's Harry's fault --isn't it

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  21. Finally reeves basement is rid of asbestos. He found a place to bring it. Now time to build barb an office

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  22. Question is with all this talk of bills flip flops and FB profile pic. Will he change it? He reads this religiously

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    1. Perhaps he will change it to a picture of his shiny pear shaped torso.

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  23. What eer happened to the vecino projects? Did the case of the missing ice cream truly stop the project. Was bill in line when he acted Ike a fool over a missing half gallon?

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  24. Hitler could get elected as a Democrat in the city of troy.

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    1. Then why don't the Republicans run some good candidates?

      Oh that's right. They don't have any.

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  25. This isn't about kickbacks as much as the toxic combination of megalomania and sheer incompetence. Bill Dunne has a desperate need to prove he is the smartest and most powerful official in Troy, which leads him to make increasingly reckless decisions that endanger everyone in the city.

    Lou needs to grow a set and excise this malignant tumor from his administration.

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  26. Bill Duune like to be poplar, maybe. He will love attension from blogs and newspaper. Most importint for Bill Dunne is POWER! I think he is more powerful than new M==ajor

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  27. Bill Dunne is a political hack with no skills. He has no real architecture degree. ,yet he idintifies

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  28. Good guy administration puts a civil service employee on the front line to answer questions in the media? Thought this was a private project? Why an employee and not the department head, the city spokesman, mayor or deputy mayor?
    The mayor was smart, he put every loudmouth on some sort of committee to study something so none of them will publicly question his administrations catastrophic failures. Asbestos released all over city, state and feds investigating and what are we talking about, ribbon cuttings and a statue on Pawling Ave.
    No contract for CSEA in 3 years. A dozen vacancies in fire department so all the overtime money is already spent. Massive borrowing for wasteful projects.
    All of the ineptitude driven by Bill Dunne. A guy no one in the administration claims to like, but it doesn't matter. Democrat Party boss Tom Wade says he stays.
    Who really runs this city? Where are we headed?

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    1. We are headed to bankruptcy and will ultimately be controlled by the State Comptrollers Office. Don't worry though, Lou and Pete will blame Harry.

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  29. Lou should ask himself. What would Sondra have done?

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  30. I'm still waiting to know why this council doesnt ask questions about the Stoneledge mudslide! Did Reeves approve that project? I'm not an engineer but there are obvioiously drainage issues and the Lansingburgh people deserve to know why their basements are flooded all the time!

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  31. LOU promised to end the BICKERING

    Back then, BICKERING was the main problem in TroyPolitics.

    Look at how far we've come.

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  32. Outspoken activists like Jim DeSeve and Richard Herrick have been silenced. The residents are scared to criticize , beacause Democrat machine is powerful and will destroy anyone who. Disagree

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    1. Herrick and DeSeve are certainly dems but they were always Dunne's guys. Don't believe you'll be hearing a peep from them.

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    2. Isn't deSeve the guy who was run out of Troy in the 80s ? He was another of those development drifters who rides in on a white horse to save troy with grandiose plans to redevelop the business district.
      After collecting mucho rents, borrowing mucho denaro, and not paying his taxes, he rode off stiffing the city and its taxpayers.

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    3. Yes and Herrick has a hard time getting on an airplane with all that metal in his skull.

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  33. Sondra was black, & Troy democrats are elitist racists.

    They fired her and nobody said anything. Everyone with a mouth must have left the city

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    1. And Troy Republicans are scumbag sexists. She would have been gone either way, dumbass

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    2. Face upi to it. Lou fired a black dept head who performed at a high level for not one good reason. Pray with willy the felon all you like but this administration has some issues with race

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    3. They've got some issues with felons, too.

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  34. Bill Dunne may be many things, but he is not a sexist or a womanizer. He has never had any issues around women an treats them with respect like all good troy democrats

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    1. Just like the good councilman Gordon

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    2. Sexism and womanizing? City Hall's got nothing on the Republicans in the county building. Talk about a hotbed of sin!

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  35. John Boyle wasn't a womanizer either

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  36. Troy Democrats have no issues with sexual preference because they must all be open-minded liberals obviously.

    Sexual preference had nothing to do with Christian Mayor pushing Napier and Sibley out.

    The Mayor is an open minded liberal christian which means he loves everyone and would never discriminate because liberals accept all and christians are good.

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    1. The mayor discriminates against spokespeople who suck at their job, regardless of gender or sexual preference.

      If they changed their enrollment to Republican and their last name to Tutunjian, they could get a county job for sure. Competence is never required there.

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    2. @ 7:05 Competence? Two names Lou and Pete....nuff said.

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    3. At least they pay their taxes. Anyone know if the Tutunjians paid those back taxes yet? Be sure to ask when you see Harry, after all as paid-up taxpayers I think we all have the right to know.

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  37. Kreshik can have any vanity plate he wants. The dire wolf and bill will both be making them in a few months

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